Expose particle-wall contact data in compute pair/gran/local?

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Submitted by msbentley on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 11:25

Hi all,

I am using compute pair/gran/local and the corresponding dump to look at the particle-particle contact data (and heat flow), but also need to look at particle-wall interactions. As far as I can see, these are not included in these computes/dumps?

I think this would be a very useful addition - I guess it would require assigning each wall an ID etc. In particular I need to identify particles in contact with the wall, and sum their heat fluxes etc.

In the meantime, is there another way of identifying which particles are in contact with a given wall at a particular timestep? I was planning to use the wall/particle contact from the dump local, hence this question... but for now any method would be good :)

Thanks!

Mark

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ckloss | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 09:56

Hi Mark,

yes of course that would be a good idea - but that would be more than a small hack. I will see if I have the time to come up with something in the near future

Christoph

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msbentley | Fri, 09/23/2011 - 16:26

Great that this is already included in release 1.4.4! I see that it is restricted to mesh walls - will it be extended to "regular" walls later, or should I simply re-write my scripts with mesh walls? Just to know for future planning :)

Thanks! Mark

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ckloss | Sun, 09/25/2011 - 16:05

Hi Mark,

well the 'regular' walls are missing some essential logic, so I don't think that will happen very soon...
Cheers, Christoph