how to restart cfdem calculation from a certain time

Submitted by ngcw1986 on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 17:16

Dear all!
Well, may be it is a silly question, but it bother me a lot. I read that "restart" command can do this function and I tried many times using my own case or the affiliated case (ErgunTestMPI). By adjusting the time step, the solver dump the result of the same time step both in OF and liggghts format. Then I edit the liggghts restart file and read the just dumped liggghts file for continuing calculation. At first it works OK, but a few time steps later It crashed (judging by the output, the particle is accelerated too much and the its kinetic energy is unreal). I know that there may be some round-off errors when recalculate the case from the last time step but it is enough to cause this?! I need some illustrations, thank you!

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cgoniva | Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:02

Hi!

within the next weeks a new release should be available allowing to restart a coupled simulation.
Then this should work "out of the box".

Kind regards,
Chris

ngcw1986 | Mon, 05/21/2012 - 14:19

Dear cgoniva!

Thank you for your reply. I am looking forward to your next release!

Good luck and best wishes for you and your team!