LIGGGHTS® - Developer Forum

Hi All,

Anyone could please instruct me how to add a new property of particles, such as moisture around the particles. I think it could be similar as define a property like temperature of particle, which is already in the LIGGGHTS. But I have no idea about the procedure of working on a new property. Any help or hint would be highly appreciated! If possible, a detailed example is best for me to learn it.

Thanks so much!

Kun
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Hi All,

Hello all,

My colleague and I are trying to port fix rigid/small from LAMMPS sep13 to the liggghts 2.3.7 environment. We are getting tripped up in the barycenter calculation in tri_mesh_i.h. If anyone can give us insight into how we need to modify tri_mesh_i.h or fix_rigid_small.cpp/h, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Zamir

Dear liggghts-developers,

the newly released 2.3.7 version of LIGGGHTS has the following changelog-entry:

> + Fixed a sign bug in fix mesh/surface/stress/servo.

as I understand, the fix is in src/fix_mesh_surface_stress_servo.cpp :

For doing a project I face some unknowns.

The one is that I want to simulate crack propagation in shale (a type of
sand) and investigate crack pattern in shale if I decrease the temperature by LIGGGHTS. I need to know how I can decrease it (temperature of the simulation box)?

Second is that do you know the material properties of shale?

Thanks a lot for your attention in advance.

Sincerely,
Rasoul

Hi,
I had a question about the exchange function in Comm class Comm::exchange(). The comment in the code says that atoms are exchanged with 6 stencil neighbors. However in 3d would not there be 26 neighbors of any given (internal) grid cell? It is certainly possible that particles could move to the "diagonal" processors. Can someone please explain why the exchange occurs with only 6 neighbors.

Thanks,
Rahul

Hi everyone,
According to the dump code, it could output the stl style of wall with the normal direction. However, I want to call it in the source code. Does anyone know how to modify the code? I found the "dump_mesh_stl.cpp" source code has the definition of the "surfaceNorm". Is it to call this code to obtain it?
Thanks.

Dear Christoph, dear Andreas,
Could you please provide some reference(s) that use(s) or derive(s) the equations of the cohesion models used in LIGGGHTS (skrj and skrj2 equations; see below)?
Thanks so much!
Best
Eric
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A simple linear cohesion model can be activated by setting cohesion = 'sjkr' or 'sjkr2' (simplified Johnson-Kendall-Roberts model). If two particle are in contact, it adds an additional normal force tending to maintain the contact, which writes

F = k A,

Hi all,

I modified the pair_gran_hook/hertz history style to take into account the Van der Waals adhesion force following JKR model. The model is described in this paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002199910800572X where
Fn = F_adhesionJKR + F_damp

The simulation is able to run, but I got unreasonable results. I find it was caused by the formulation of "ccel" in LIGGGHTS that I used. Currently, I use the expression:

ccel = - F_adhesionJKR - F_damp

Dear Users and Developers,

I am trying to get LIGGGHTS and CFDEM running for two days now and read almost all threads related to compiling and installing in this forum.

So far, I was able to compile LIGGGHTS 2.3.6 on my ubuntu 12.04 (precise) machine and obtained the executable similar to the steps described in the forum by PaulWinkler.

I can start LIGGGHTS and I tested some tutorials, like the cohesion-noCohesion example, and it worked fine.

Hi All,

I am trying to add the water evaporation function of particles during the heating process. I am now working out CFDEM coupling. And I would like to add water evaporation into LIGGGHTS. I have already done the literature review on theory of water evaporation, but I am not sure how to add in program of LIGGGHTS. Anyone could provide a general outline of code writting and compiling? I am highly appreciating any comments!

Thanks!

Kun