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Gravity and Archimedes

Submitted by tdl on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 13:36

Noob question.
I would like to simulate particles falling down in a container filled with water. For now I do not need to couple with CFD, but I would like to able to tell the simulation that once the particles reach a given region, they are subject to an Archimedean lift.
But I am not sure how I can do it? Any simple example that I may have missed?
Thanks!

How to define a container & void ratio

Submitted by venes520 on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 08:03

Hi guys,

I am trying to simulate a Direct Shear Box Test for soil.

I want to create two containers (two granular boxes, upper & lower) to contain the soil assemble and do the shearing.

To create the containers, I am thinking of wall/gran, however, I don't know how to group this walls together so that they become a container and move together, be able to read the force on it.

Please help me out if you have any thoughts or did something similar.

Remarks on Benchmark 3

Submitted by SamWong on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 07:02

Hi there,

Can someone comment on one of the results in Benchmark 3 where the speed of LIGGGHTS is slower than the commercial code for the continuous blending mixer case? Why is it slower in this test case?

Also, which commercial code is it? Can you please email/message me privately? I'm doing some benchmark myself too.

Thanks,
Sam

invalid atom style

Submitted by neelu09 on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 20:09

hi

I am not able to use atom style ellipsoid for my simulation. I have done work using liggghts with granular atom style and had no problems. But when i try to use ellipsoid atom style, it gives an error saying "invalid atom style". Same goes for colloid and dipole atom styles as well. Here's my input file
atom_style ellipsoid
boundary f f f
newton off
atom_modify sort 0 0

communicate single vel yes
units si

region reg cylinder y 0 0 0.0225 0 .08 units box

create_box 2 reg

neighbor 0.001 bin
neigh_modify delay 0

shape 1 1.0 1.0 1.0
shape 2 1.0 4.0 1.0

radial segregation of granular media

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Submitted by raguelmoon on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 11:29

Hi all,
I have performed DEM simulation of radial segregation in horizontal rotating drum. Results are in good agreement. Publication is being accepted. Watch simulation video:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=3090292932292

Shortly, all input files and tutorials will be posted here.
Thanks,
Ram

How to define internal friction angle

Submitted by venes520 on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 17:18

Hi guys!

I am currently learning LIGGGHTS to simulate the Direct Shear Box Test for soil and thinking about the Granular package.
Under the pair_style gran/hertz/history/stiffness command, I am able to define the stiffnesses of soft contact and damping constants etc,
however, I also want to define the internal friction angle of particles to describe the particle-particle friction coefficient.

Anyone can help me out on that?

True calculation of tangential history?

Submitted by jwarnett on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 16:12

Hey

I was just speaking to a visiting lecturer about LIGGGHTS and he said that he had an undergraduate using the code, and noticed something missing in the code to do with the correct calculation of the tangential history. He said it was a few months ago he was looking at it, so I was unsure as to if this may have been picked up and amended.

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