Several errors in CFDEMcoupling tutorials

Hello Community,

first of all a happy new year!

I have installed and configured CFDEMproject with OpenFOAM 2.3.0 and LIGGGHTS on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (PC and VM), and has followed the steps on githubAccess_public.pdf.

1. My colleage has tested the project and get several errors if she runs the tutorials, for example the following
/home/simone/CFDEM/simone-PUBLIC/run/tutorials/cfdemSolverIB/twoSpheresGlowinskiMPI

// run_parallel_cfdemSolverPiso_ErgunTestMPI_CFDDEM //
/home/simone/CFDEM/simone-PUBLIC/run/tutorials/cfdemSolverIB/twoSpheresGlowinskiMPI/CFD
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mpirun was unable to launch the specified application as it could not find an executable:
Executable: cfdemSolverIB
Node: fautm92vm
while attempting to start process rank 0.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
4 total processes failed to start

and the message

thermo_log ../DEM/post/thermo.txt
atom_style granular
atom_modify map array
communicate single vel yes
boundary f f f
newton off
units si
processors 2 2 1
ERROR: Specified processors != physical processors (../comm.cpp:1952)


Several errors occurs in all of the tutorials. Paraview and Octave will be called but they came up with error messages that won´t find the files (no such file or directory).

2. My colleage also have the problem that she couldn´t complie their solvers (with wmake), for example applications/solver/cfdemSolverIB. This belongs also to the other solver/tutorials.

could not open file incompressible/turbulenceModel/turbulenceModel.H for source file cfdemSolverIB.C due to No such file or directory
could not open file meshToMeshNew.H for source file cfdemSolverIB.C due to No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘’: No such file or directory
make: *** [/cfdemSolverIB] Error 1


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Yours sincerely,
Christian