Prometech has released the particle-based simulation software “Particleworks Ver. 8.1.0” and the granular materials simulation software “Granuleworks Ver.3.1.0”.

Prometech Software, Inc. (CEO: Takahiko Suzuki, Head Office: Tokyo, hereinafter Prometech) has released the particle-based simulation software “Particleworks Ver. 8.1.0” and the granular materials simulation software “Granuleworks Ver.3.1.0”.

Particleworks is a CFD simulation software based on MPS -moving particle simulation- method. By using particles as calculation points without mesh generation, it greatly reduces the number of pre-processing steps such as simulation model creation and simulates complicated liquid behaviors including large-scale deformation of free surfaces such as oil behavior of power train, piston oil cooling, vehicles driving into the flooded road, mixing of food, chemicals and resin, debris and concrete flow, and tsunami runup, etc. Because of such simulation capabilities, Particleworks has been attracting attention in various fields including automotive, machinery, electric, material, food, chemical, biomedical, energy, and civil engineering industries all over the world.

Granuleworks is a granular material simulation software based on the discrete element method (DEM) theory. It can be used for manufacturing processes using powders, powder processing, and design and improvement of powder equipment for various fields including food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, transport equipment, and electronic materials. Besides, by coupling with Particleworks, it can also simulate bubbles’ behavior in liquid.

New capabilities of Particleworks/Granuleworks

Common to Particleworks/Granuleworks
– Rigid body motion of polygon wall with constraints
– Enhanced post-processing capabilities such as graph functions, video generation, and mapping

Particleworks
– Thermal calculation using the Finite Volume Method (FVM)
– Two-phase flow solver with the pressure explicit method (Beta feature)

Granuleworks
– Aeration performance improvements
– Analysis with non-spherical particles (Beta feature)