Vincent Visseq

Distributed Nonsmooth Contact Domain Decomposition (NSCDD): Algorithmic Structure and Scalability

Numerical simulations of the dynamics of discrete structures in presence of numerous impacts with frictional contacts leads to CPU-intensive large time computations. To deal with these problems, numerical tools have been developed, such as the nonsmooth contact domain decomposition (NSCDD). We present further a distributed version of its algorithm with parallel detection of fine contacts and discuss two possible communication schemes to solve the interface problem. Those improvements allow to study scalability and numerical performances of the method for 2D and 3D granular media.

High performance hybrid FEM/DEM simulation tool for numerical analysis of historical structures

The current paper aims at presenting the various aspects of a modeling and simulation framework dedicated to the study of historical structures considered as complex mechanical systems with interactions (contact, friction, cohesion, etc) and multi-physics couplings (thermal effects, diffusion, etc). Based on the proposed framework a simulation tool has been developed, with a complete strategy (pre-processing, simulation, post-processing), making possible to deal efficiently with the numerical modeling of those structures; it is available as an open-source software: LMGC90 [4].