Contact#

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OpenFDEM developer group#

Principal Investigator#

Professor Giovanni Grasselli +44 (0)207 594 7327
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
University of Toronto
Email: giovanni.grasselli@utoronto.ca
Bio:

Giovanni Grasselli is a Professor and the NSERC/Energi Simulation Industrial Research Chair in Fundamental Petroleum Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on hybrid finite-discrete element (FDEM) numerical technology, experimental visualization techniques, and geomechanics principles applied to the study of tunneling and hydraulic fracturing. He received the prestigious ISRM Rocha Medal (2004) for best thesis worldwide in rock mechanics and supervised two Rocha Medal winners (2015 and 2017). Through the start-up company Geomechanica Inc., the FDEM technology is currently commercialized and translated to engineering practice.

Lead Developer#

Dr. Xiaofeng Li +86 (1)363 860 4484
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
University of Toronto
Email: xfli@whrsm.ac.cn
Website: www.xiaofengli-fdem.com
Bio:

Dr. Xiaofeng Li earned his PhD degree from the Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Monash University in 2019. He is a postdoc in Grasselli’s Geomechanics Group at University of Toronto since 2021. His research interests lie in the fields of rock dynamics and computational mechanic sciences with emphasis on the development of the hybrid continuum and discontinuum methods for failure modelling of geomaterials spanning the scale from micro-grain-based heterogeneity (mineral, texture, anisotropy, grain morphology) to macro- in-situ applications (rock faulting, geothermal-induced earthquakes). He is the recipient of the 2021 ROCHA runner-up of the ISRM. He is awarded as future leader of Class 2022 in ARMA. He is the lead developer of the opensource continuum-discontinuum code (OpenFDEM), which aims to be a free finite and discrete element kernel with object-oriented architecture for solving multiscale, multiphase and multiphysics (3M) problems that operates on various platforms.

Current PhD students for solver#

Wang Ben (blast solver) - Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Supporting packages developers#

  • Dr. Qi Zhao - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Architecture Design

  • Katia Ossetchkina – University of Toronto, Documentation and Website

  • Grace Hu - University of Toronto, Documentation and Website

  • Earl Magsipoc - University of Toronto, Graphical user interface designing

  • Dr. Aly Abdelaziz - University of Toronto, Postprocessing and data processing