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Collision energy in the ball mill

Submitted by suzdal on Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:08

Hi.

I have a question

I want to calculate the collision energy between balls in a ball-mill.
So I'm trying get the value of the kinetic energy of balls when a ball contacts another ball.

The condition of atom type is granular,

I have used "compute pair/gran/local command ",

as describe below

compute pa all pair/gran/local id

and, I've gotten the IDs of balls(atoms) which contacts another balls with as c_pa[1], and c_pa[2].

I want to make group which have the atom IDs in c_pa[1], and c_pa[2] ,but i couldn't that.

addtorque

Submitted by JoshuaP on Wed, 10/01/2014 - 15:51

Hi,

when I try to use addtorque on particles there occurs an error with 'too many neighborbins (neighbor.cpp:1747)'.
Without the addtorque its working. To use addtorque I went before in the src directory and did 'make yes-user'. Then make clean-all and make fedora. It is now running a few timesteps but then the error occurs. Is there maybe a better way then using addtorque?

thanks
Joshua

Reference for scaling Young's modulus

Submitted by alberthappy on Tue, 09/30/2014 - 05:36

Hi everyone,

I noticed that a lot of papers suggested reducing Young's modulus (shown in Hertz contact model) by several orders in Engineering modeling. But I didn't find any guideline on how many orders are proper in doing this, especially for a binary system. Can anyone give me some reference? Thanks.

Particle counting problem

Submitted by shawnwuch on Tue, 09/30/2014 - 03:54

Dear Liggghts users,

I am having three problems counting the number of particles of 2 different sizes flowing through a rectangular slot. My Liggghts version is 2.3.6.

The first problem is that when I use group function with variable function as shown below in the input script, the output of particle count is always zero. I don't quite understand why this happens. (Here I simplify the problem by using fewer timesteps and try to count to particle in the insert region, named as inbox.)

Here is the script I wrote:

Dumpfile / Paticle / Time of creation

Submitted by RobertG on Fri, 09/26/2014 - 14:42

Hello,
I'm new at Liggghts. So far I worked with the continuous mixer tutorial.
After a few tries and errors, I managed it, to work under Liggghts 3.0.3.
At the moment I try to get the time of creation of every particle to be written in the dump file.
I searched for some clues, but I didn't find anything.

I hope somebody can help me.

Thanks.
RobertG.

Add molecular package

Submitted by Parteibonze on Tue, 09/23/2014 - 20:31

Hi users

I am a new user of the LIGGGHTS, and i work in my resource with this program. I have a questions, How can i install molecular package? I need to work with ellipsoid for my resource, and i have read that others users have created codes for this atom style but the program needs the molecular package. Thanks very much

Detecting wall and moving mesh collisions

Submitted by Misterblobby on Tue, 09/16/2014 - 14:46

Hi,

I have been trying to simulate particle flow through what is basically a rock impeller, which runs at approximately 1800 rpm. Particle speeds can be up to around 60 m/s, and maybe 40% of particles will fly through both the impeller walls and the outer (static) wall. Both are generated from stl files.

I have tried reducing the timestep down to 1e-7, with no noticeable improvement, and have also tried reducing the mesh spacing in the stl files.

Is there anything else I can do to improve the detection rate?

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