Snow property modeling and its application to particulate ice-snow flow computing in snowblower

Yosuke Yamamoto, Jun Ishimoto, Naoya Ochiai

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Abstract

Snow properties are influenced by climate or region. For the efficient development of a snowblower, stable and quantitative performance evaluation method is required. We tried to reproduce the snow removal work using the Discrete Element Method (DEM) in this study. In addition to the conventional DEM, we developed potential model for reproducing the compaction of snow and air drag model to consider the properties of actual snow. And we have improved the snow property model for fallen snow simulation. As a result of present computational method, it was clarified that the detailed snow behavior in relation to snowblower can be successfully reproduced by simulation using the DEM. The obtained computational results were compared with the experimental results, and found that both results exhibit reasonable agreements. Therefore, we have succeeded in the computational reproduction of quantitative snow behavior in a snowblower using new snow property model.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods - Fundamentals and Applications, PARTICLES 2015
EditorsEugenio Onate, D.R.J. Owen, T. Zohdi, M. Bischoff, P. Wriggers
PublisherInternational Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Pages410-418
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9788494424472
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods, PARTICLES 2015 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 2015 Sept 282015 Sept 30

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods - Fundamentals and Applications, PARTICLES 2015

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods, PARTICLES 2015
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period15/9/2815/9/30

Keywords

  • Dem
  • Lenard-jones potential model
  • Simulation
  • Snow
  • Snow removal
  • Snowblower

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