Using Elmer to model silly putty deforming
Posted: 05 Dec 2018, 01:10
Hi all,
For a school project my partner and I are trying to model the viscous deformation of silly putty. We would like to model how, over time, a conical silly putty object would deform to a flatter, pancake-shaped object. We were thinking we would use the Navier-Stokes solver capability of Elmer, but are having trouble finding examples to build our project off of. We did run the examples listed on the courses material page on the Elmer ice website. One of my primary questions is wether it is possible to actually accomplish this project with Elmer? Also, can changing shapes in the x and y directions be modeled with Elmer (the cone of silly putty expands horizontally as it flattens into a pancake shape)? Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
For a school project my partner and I are trying to model the viscous deformation of silly putty. We would like to model how, over time, a conical silly putty object would deform to a flatter, pancake-shaped object. We were thinking we would use the Navier-Stokes solver capability of Elmer, but are having trouble finding examples to build our project off of. We did run the examples listed on the courses material page on the Elmer ice website. One of my primary questions is wether it is possible to actually accomplish this project with Elmer? Also, can changing shapes in the x and y directions be modeled with Elmer (the cone of silly putty expands horizontally as it flattens into a pancake shape)? Any help is appreciated! Thanks!