The rotation viscosity

Submitted by tshan on Tue, 01/18/2011 - 07:56

Hi, all

I am thinking and finding if there is a rotation viscosity(damping) or rotation constraint command in LIGGGHTS, which may allow realistic description of granular flow behavior.

I have found a fix momentum command which allow me to zero angular momentum every several steps, but it is not what I want.

Any response from you will help! Thanks a lot!

Best,
Tong

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ckloss | Tue, 01/18/2011 - 12:49

There is a rolling friction model, see the doc for pair gran. Also, you can easily write a command that applies damping to rotational motion (similar to fix viscous), if that is what you are looking for.

Christoph