Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2011-02-12
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
7 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
The simulation of granular media is usually done either with event-driven codes that treat collisions as instantaneous but have difficulty with very dense packings, or with molecular dynamics methods that approximate rigid grains using a stiff viscoelastic spring. There is a little-known method that combines several collision events into a single timestep in order to retain the instantaneous collisions of event-driven dynamics but also be able to handle dense packings. However, it is poorly characterized as to its regime of validity and failure modes. We present a modification of this method to reduce the introduction of overlap error, and test it using the problem of 2D granular Couette flow, a densely packed system that has been well-characterized by previous work. We find that this method can successfully replicate the results of previous work up to the point of jamming, and that it can do so a factor of 10 faster than comparable MD methods.
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