What Is Aspherix®?
Aspherix® is Discrete Element Method (DEM) software for simulating particles and bulk or granular materials, developed by DCS Computing in Linz, Austria.
Aspherix® is used across pharmaceutical, mining, iron and steel production, agricultural machinery, process industry, electrical equipment, and equipment manufacturing.
What Is Aspherix®?
Aspherix® is Discrete Element Method (DEM) software for simulating particles and bulk or granular materials, developed by DCS Computing in Linz, Austria.
Aspherix® is used across pharmaceutical, mining, iron and steel production, agricultural machinery, process industry, electrical equipment, and equipment manufacturing.
What Aspherix® Simulates
Aspherix® simulates spheres, multispheres, superquadrics, concave triangulated shapes, fibers, flexible membranes, and bonded particles, so bulk material behavior can be modeled with realistic particle shape (see more).
It also models cohesive mixing, powder compaction, particle breakage, wear, heat transfer, rheology, and soil mechanics, so a wide range of bulk material processes can be captured accurately. Simulation time comes down through coarse-graining with scaling laws and dynamic load balancing, so large-scale industrial processes run on practical timescales.
High-Performance DEM Software
Aspherix® is a cutting-edge Discrete Element Method (DEM) software designed to simulate particle behavior in diverse systems, offering high-precision process modeling. It integrates data from multiple sources, ensuring seamless analysis across varied formats. With user-friendly dashboards, it delivers real-time analytics for instant insights, enabling quick, data-driven decision-making.
Flexible Licensing, Multi-Platform, Tailored to You
Choose lease or perpetual licensing, with floating and node-unlocked options, and mix license types to handle peak demand.
Run Aspherix® and CFDEM®coupling on Windows or Linux, on desktops, workstations, HPC clusters, in the cloud, on CPU or GPU.
We also deliver custom developments and workflows, plus regular updates with new features and improvements.
Why Choose Aspherix®?
Nonspherical
Shapes
Superquadrics, multispheres, concave, fibers, ...
Complex Physics Models
From powders to flexible particles, from chemistry to breakage.
CFD-DEM Coupling
Native through CFDEM®coupling, owned by DCS.
Automated Calibration
Lab tests mapped to simulation micro-parameters.
All Particle Shapes at a Glance
Real particles are rarely round. Aspherix® supports a large variety of particle shapes, so pellets, grains, tablets, ore, fibers, agglomerates, ... can be modelled with the shape that matches the material.
Spheres
Multispheres
Superquadrics
Convex Facetted Particles
Concave Facetted Particles
Bonded Particles & Fibers
Complex physics, from heat transfer and chemical reactions to wear, breakage and coating, plus coupling to CFD, FEM and multibody dynamics and a C++ and Python API: the Aspherix® spec sheets list every feature in detail.
Ready to unlock the full potential of Aspherix®?
Request your free 4-week trial, complete with a user-friendly GUI, 16 parallel licenses, and a step-by-step video tutorial to get started.
Power Your Particle Research With Aspherix®
Cutting-Edge Simulation and Data Management for Education
What is Aspherix® Academic?
Aspherix® Academic is a commercial licensing scheme for researchers running particle simulations. It includes:
- Full Aspherix® functionalities
- Project-tailored customization
- Competitive pricing
Frequently Asked Questions
DEM (Discrete Element Method) software models the behavior of granular materials by solving the equations of motion for each individual particle. Aspherix® is a commercial DEM package built for this.
Windows or Linux, from desktops and workstations to HPC clusters and the cloud, on CPU and GPU.
Yes, through CFDEM®coupling, the framework DCS develops and owns. It can be used with OpenFOAM, and it includes an immersed boundary method (IBM) solver for complex moving geometries.
Yes. A free 4-week trial including the GUI, 16 parallel licenses, and a step-by-step video tutorial.
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