LIGGGHTS vs commercial code benchmarks

Submitted by ahobbs on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:13

Some recent benchmark studies looking at LIGGGHTS, EDEM 2.4.3, and StarCCM+

The first test case is a short section of rotating drum with 5,000 particles run on 1,2,4 and 8 cores (Intel X5355, Redhat EL5) run from 0 to 10 seconds.

The next case is the same drum geometry extruded to 3m in length with 100,000 particles run on 8 cores

All runs used Hertz Mindlin and identical material parameters. In general, particle behavior across the codes was very, very similar.