Useful links

Here are some links that maybe useful.

Particle simulation softwares

LIGGGHTS: a general granular and granular heat transfer simulator based on LAMMPS. It can be coupled with CFD to simulate fluid-solid systems (very cool).

ESyS-Particle: an Open Source software for particle-based numerical modelling. Not only granular flows, it can be used to simulate rock fragmentation and fault gouge evolution.

REBOUND: an N-body integrator that can integrate the motion of particles under the influence of gravity. It has various integrators and gravity solvers.

PKDGrav: a parallel N-body tree code. Prof. Richardson and Dr. Michel’s group added collisional physics to the code so it could be applied to problems in planetary science.

Visualisation Tools

ParaView: an open-source multiple-platform application for interactive, scientific visualization.

POV-Ray: a cross-platform ray-tracing program that generates images from a text-based scene description.

VTK: an open-source software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and scientific visualization.

Selected small body missions

MMX mission to Martian moons Phobos and Deimos.

DART and Hera missions to impact and explore Didymos system.

OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission to Bennu.

Hayabusa2 asteroid sample return mission to Ryugu.

Rosetta mission to land on and fly with 67P.

Hayabusa asteroid sample return mission to Itokawa.

Others

Prof. Derek C. Richardson’s website, where you can find interesting movies related to particle simulations in planetary science.

Prof. Robert Behringer’s website, where you can find fascinating photoelastic images of force chains in granular materials.

Crab lab, which focus on the interaction between the animal body and the granular environment (a combination of Biomechanics and Soft Matter).