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Illegal group command

Submitted by chuchu697 on Tue, 04/18/2023 - 06:50

Hi, all,
I am trying to put atoms that meet a certain boolean condition to a group called "inwardatom". This is the code:

variable eatom2 atom "(v_DH>50e-6)&&(v_inOut<0)"
group inwardatom variable eatom2

The error message says:

ERROR: Illegal group command (group.cpp:341)

Can anyone tell me what causes it?

Thanks a lot!

belt with variable speed

Submitted by willDEM on Fri, 03/17/2023 - 00:14

Hello, I am a new user of LIGGGTHS public.

I am working on a project which involves a variable speed belt. However, I couldn't find an example or detailed explanation on this.

How can I simulate this with LIGGGTHS public?

Could anyone shade a light on this? I think this is a common problem in a real project?

Thanks.

pair/gran/local contactArea

Submitted by Xeniya on Tue, 02/28/2023 - 06:27

I used compute pair/gran/local in order to find the contact area between two superquadrics. The output gives me 260 mm^2 while the diameter of the particles is 11 mm. The contact is edge-face, so basically this small overlap between face and edge, according to the output, produced the contact area more than twice the face-to-face total contact between the particles.

The question is what does "contactArea" exactly represent? What are the possible reasons why the contactArea found is so large?

Thanks everybody for Your replies in advance!

Need help to insert bigger particles in my simulation

Submitted by gibel on Sat, 02/25/2023 - 11:39

Hello guys,
Recently I am having a problem in particle insertion in drum.

I don't have problem with small size of particles with small drum. However, I am trying to use a bigger drum with width 2m and diameter 6m (si unit).
For bigger geometry I am trying to insert two types of particles with 1 m and 0.8 m. Whenever I increased the particles size, it doesn't increase the required number of particles in insertion. Instead it just insert 10, or 12 particles. I gues it is trying to control some of the calculation like fill mass rate or insertion.

Using multiple cohesion forces in one input script

Submitted by noahwhitney1100 on Sat, 02/18/2023 - 23:08

Hello,
I am running a simulation that needs a hertzian contact force, as well as a SJKR cohesion force and a capillary cohesion force. I cannot get both cohesion forces to work in the same simulation. This is the command I am using.

pair_style hybrid/overlay gran model hertz tangential history cohesion sjkr cohesion easo/capillary/viscous
pair_coeff * *

And I am receiving this error:

ERROR: Unknown argument or wrong keyword order: 'cohesion' (../pair_gran_base.h:129)

Any help would be great thank you!

Modifying LIGGGHTS for Charge Conduction

Submitted by joe-dan on Wed, 02/15/2023 - 11:39

I am looking into how I would go about modifying an existing contact model to include charge conduction of particles through contact. I have to say my C++ skills aren't amazing but I have a fair bit of experience with programming in other languages so I understand how code is set up and run. My confusion comes from understanding where I would have to implement this code in order to allow for charge to be transferred when particles collide with each other and where I would put the calculations that are referred to during this interaction.

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