settleDyn is a sedimentation process simulator. It is capable of generating loose sand-like structures from given particle forms and statistical distributions.
This software is a complete rewrite of the Settle3D program written by Guido Blöcher. See corresponding [paper] BZ08 for further details.
The complete sedimentation process including diagenesis involves many processes on variing time and space scales. The first step in sandstone formation is deposition of grains. This process can be simulated with current software. Cementation and further compactification or any other diagenetic processes cannot be simulated with settleDyn.
Simulation process starts with definition of grain shapes and grain size distributions. The shapes are polyhedral descriptions read from files in Geomview Object File Format ([.off] G07). For now, only convex shapes are allowed.
After the simulation is finished, the grains in their current positions are written to specified directory, again in the .off format.
This code is written in Haskell and uses the Bullet Game Physics Engine Library for collision detection. In order to compile this program you will need:
- Bullet Physics Library Bullet
- Haskell e.g. Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) (http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/)
- Various package dependencies given in the .cabal file.
In near future I shall rewrite same functionality in c++. This will make compilation and modifications easier.
Possible new features are:
- More statistical information
- Other output format interesting especially for very large simulations.
- Handling concave grains.
- Randomization of grains' surfaces.
- ...
Any suggestions are welcome.
Author:
- Dmitrij Yu. Naumov settleDyn@naumov.de.
Copyright:
- 2009, 2010, 2011 - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.
- 2011, 2012 - Dmitrij Yu. Naumov
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.