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Hi everyone,

I just update liggghts into 3.7 from 3.6. I did a test with the same input file in both 3.6 and 3.7. however, the fix move/mesh gave me different result.

fix vibra all move/mesh mesh bottom viblin axis 0. 0. 1. order 1 amplitude 0.0025 phase 1.57 period 0.02

What is the motion produced by this command ?

According to the documentation, in 3.7, it seems this command has a different meaning. I can't remember the meaning in 3.6. In practice, 3.7 give the wiggle command to produce a sine motion of the mesh while 3.6 didn't (I think).

I can see from the new version of LIGGGHTS that dissipated energy can be tracked. Can anybody help me in how to dump the dissipated energy. Thanks in advance

computeDissipatedEnergy values = 'on' or 'off'
on = the normal model saves the dissipated energy for each contact for the
use in fix calculate/dissipated_energy

Hi

May someone assist on how to get the total mass of particles in the domain when using multispheres. i discovered that creating a group variable does not work with multispheres.

Regards

Hi

I am using multispheres in my simulation. I have created variables because i would want certain quantities to be printed to screen as the simulation proceeds however i am getting an error "Variable command group may not be used together with fix multisphere". May someone assist on how i should use variables in a multisphere simulation

Thank you

I need to insert spherical particles of size varying from 0.0001m to 0.00001m (diameter) into a container until the container fills completely. Without feeding no of particles as input data how can i formulate the syntax for this condition.

Hi everyone,

I am learning how to use the fix rigid command. From my trials, the fix rigid command requires a dense particle clump. If the particles are separated from each other, the rigid body of particles will collapses due to collision with other particles. Am I right?

Thanks
Weijing

Hi every one,
please help me i am new user of liggghts, and using ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system.
i used the procedure given in the link : "https://www.cfdem.com/media/DEM/docu/Section_start.html"
after completing step 0 (2.2.2. Steps to build a LIGGGHTS(R)-PUBLIC executable) i got lmp_auto in src directory.
than i went directly on "2.6. Running LIGGGHTS(R)-PUBLIC"
and tried to run tutorial example chute wear input script by using following command in terminal:
":~/LIGGGHTS-PUBLIC/examples/LIGGGHTS/Tutorials_public/chute_wear$ mpirun -np 4 lmp_auto

Hi, where can I find more info on the following listed change for 3.7:

"Arno Mayrhofer (DCS ) modified the fix move/mesh command that now has reference frames (for the center of rotation) that depend on parent fixes"

Thanks.

[edit]
The reason I asked, is that my stacked rotations are now all being combined into a single rotation. That is, the reference frames all stay the same, when I've been using a rotating reference frame to essentially run my x y and z rotations separately.

Hi guys,

I"m kind of newbie to this program and have lots of questions on using it.

First of all, I have trouble with the fix property/* command.

In the manual, it says that 'variablename = a valid C++ string' does it mean that I can use any of the variable name which I want to set?

If it is correct, then how can LIGGGHTS program understand all those variables and set the property?

And if there's any list of variables that I can use for the fix property/* command, please let me know.

Thanks,

Regards,

hello,

I am using dump local/gran/vtk command as follow to visualize forcechain in paraview:

dump forcechain all local/gran/vtk 1000 dump*.vtk

However, I get the following error:

ERROR: dump local/gran/vtk requires 6 arguments (../dump_local_gran_vtk.cpp:94)

Unfortunately, I cannot find any information about this dump style in online documentation of LIGGGHTS 3.X (The online manual). I would appreciate if anyone could tell me what arguments are needed for this dump style.

Thank you,
Nina