Simulation using ellipsoid particles

Submitted by liuchili1992 on Tue, 12/20/2016 - 08:05

Hello,

I've built LIGGGHTS with the sphere package but have problem defining the pair_style between them. I checked the online documentation that the hertz contact requires torque and angular velocity given by atom_style and also per-atom radius, which I have no idea how to define for ellipsoid. I have not tried the hooke one yet but from the documentation I think it also only works for spherical particles. Any suggestion is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Liuchi

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ckloss | Mon, 01/02/2017 - 13:38

Hi Liuchi,

there are no ellipsoidal shapes in LIGGGHTS. However, we'll release a superquadric implementation later this year

Best wishes
Christoph