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Define a groupbased on particle diameter

Submitted by shao_lee on Tue, 08/13/2013 - 17:58

Hello everyone,

Could anyone be kind to tell me how to define a group based on particle diameter? Say, "group sub diameter <= A".

In the newest version of LAMMPS, this could be done by using 'variable' keyword with group command, as described in http://lammps.sandia.gov/doc/group.html

However, in the current version of LIGGGHTS (2.3.6), the 'variable' keyword cannot be used with group command.

Thank you in advance!

Lei

inclined moving wall

Submitted by xiuhan on Tue, 08/13/2013 - 13:51

Hi all, I am trying to create a wall in Liggghts in gran style to track the particle-wall interaction force. Well I want my wall be tilted for 45 degrees, so not perfectly xplane or yplane or zplane.... and also can move horizontally forward with constant velocity. basically it looks like this. \ ------> A tiled wall moving in horizontal direction. I don't see how to set it through fix wall/gran command. Is it possible in Liggghts? I am not expecting it to be very difficult....

Thanks for any reply.

xiuhan

Variable conveyor speed

Submitted by RocheDEM on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 16:15

Is there a simple way to change the speed of a conveyor (surface velocity).

The only thing I can think of is to start with one fix mesh/surface with a certain surface velocity. stop the simulation and write a restart file.
Restart the sim with a new surface velocity...

I'm sure there is a better way though.

Thank you for your help,

Kirk

Restarting with a different numer of processors?

Submitted by RocheDEM on Wed, 08/07/2013 - 15:30

Hi,

I have been running my simulations with 2 cpu's and I use

write_restart restart-%-*.rstrt

to create a restart at the end of the simulation.

I was wondering if I can restart with a different number of cpus. I would like to use 6 now. my read_restart looks like

read_restart restart-%-*.rstrt

Whould I have more luck if I used

write_restart restart-*.rstrt

and

read_restart restart-*.rstrt

instead?

Thank you,

Kirk

Does Liggghts support inserting particle during CFD-DEM coupling?

Submitted by keepfit on Tue, 08/06/2013 - 17:41

Hi Chris,

My question is pretty much same as the title. To explain in more detail (please also take a look at this post: http://cfdem.dcs-computing.com/?q=node/1745 ), the following command is used to insert particle steam:

fix ins nve_group insert/stream seed 5330 distributiontemplate pdd1 &
nparticles 20000 particlerate 8000 overlapcheck yes vel constant 0.0 5.0 0.0 &
insertion_face inface extrude_length 0.02

Trouble restarting

Submitted by RocheDEM on Tue, 08/06/2013 - 15:00

Hi,

I am working on a shear cell simulation. I run the simulation in different steps (filling, cleaning, shearing...). The problem is that after I finish the shearing operation, I noticed that I have not attained steady state for the shear force. I want to restart (this is the 3rd restart that this model will see). The model will not restart from this point. I have included all the files needed to (try to) run my model. I get the following error:

cumulative rotation and sliding

Submitted by mojgan on Mon, 08/05/2013 - 19:27

hi everybody,
I was wondering if there is any way of calculating cumulative rotation of particles through the scripting. I do not want to change the source code and I think that its postprocessing will be so time consuming as particles data should be saved in all steps. moreover, I need to know which particles slide against their neighbors. how can I overcome these problems?

thank you so much
mojgan

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