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Fixed and variable temperature particles

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Submitted by msbentley on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:13

Hi all,

I'm trying to set up a sim with a region of fixed temperature particles at the top and bottom, and particles that have variable temperature in between. The docs suggest I do not include adiabatic particles in the heat/gran fix. So I've set up a lattice of (4200) particles and defined regions as:

region upper block INF INF INF INF ${upper_limit} INF units box
region lower block INF INF INF INF INF ${lower_limit} units box
region middle union 2 upper lower side out

group thermal_group region middle
3000 atoms in group thermal_group

shear test

Submitted by prasantud on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 12:21

Hi everybody,
I would like to start the shear test using LIGGGHTS.
Could you help me in doing it.
I was using velocity command for the control of temperature. So far no success. I came to know about the shear test from the following message.
Many thanks in advance.
Samantaray

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 17:18 — tshan

Dear all,

I have already done some triaxial tests and simple shear tests, but I want to know the contact normal among the particles and then realise them in paraview to further generate the force-chain.

calculation of neighbors neigh/atom neighbor list

Submitted by prasantud on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 15:20

Hi Chris,
Could you give hints about the calculation of neighbors in LIGGGHTS?
I am using the following commands in the programme.
lattice fcc 0.0013
neighbor 0.00125 bin

It is creating
Total # of neighbors = 48418
Ave neighs/atom = 24.209
Neighbor list builds = 27

create atoms different youngsModulus

Submitted by jikra on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 23:13

Hi

i need create 2 atoms with different youngsModulus parametr.

i try this:

fix m1 all property/global youngsModulus peratomtype 5.e7 5.e6

create_atoms 1 single 0.0 0.0 10.0
set atom 1 density 2000 diameter 2.0

create_atoms 2 single 5 0.0 10.0
set atom 2 density 2000 diameter 2.0

So i get that ERROR: Invalid atom type in create_atoms command
What's wrong?

Thanks
jikra

Error

Submitted by yangdm on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 16:52

Hi, all

I just got an error with the 'fix' when running the LIGGGHTS examples:

fix m1 all property/global youngsModulus peratomtype 5.e6
ERROR: Invalid fix style

It seems the property/global is a LIGGGHTS style for the 'fix'.
The LAMMPS examples were done well, without any error, perhaps the LIGGGHTS was not invoked properly??

Any help is appreciated.

Non-spherical particles by clumping multiple spheres together

Submitted by marc on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 16:52

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to set up a simulation with 3 spheres clumped together, exactly as seen in LIGGGHTS Features > Non-spherical particles > Example - pouring a continuous stream of non-spherical particles, where can be seen particles made of 3 spheres glued together.

I'm exploring some possibilities to do a modification of this study http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/skoge/prost/proceedings/ecce6_sep07/upload/1... by simulating a packed bed with non-spherical particle as my PhD study. My idea is starting with 3 spheres glued and then move on with different particle geometries.

Particle size (volume) limit in fix particletemplate/sphere

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Submitted by msbentley on Mon, 08/29/2011 - 17:58

Hi all,

I have so far been running LIGGGHTS with more-or-less "large" particles (mm/cm), but now want to move towards the size that interests me, around ~1 µm or so. However, if I try to use fix particletemplate/sphere and fix particledistribution/discrete to generate small particles I get an error which seems to arise from a hard-coded limit:

if(volume_expect < 1e-12) error->all("Fix template/sphere: Volume expectancy too small");

in fix_template_sphere.cpp.

mesh/tet and insert/pack

Submitted by SergeiD on Mon, 08/29/2011 - 17:54

Hi. I want to use mesh/tet and insert/pack features.
I use in.insert_pack example file as basic for my simulation.
But I get an error when I use own insertion region geometry file instead of test.vtk:

LIGGGHTS 1.4.1 based on lammps-10Mar10
Created orthogonal box = (-1 -1 -1) to (1 6 2)
1 by 4 by 1 processor grid
Fix particledistribution/discrete (id pdd1): distribution based on mass%:
pts1: d=5.000000e-02 (max. bounding sphere) mass%=30.000000%
pts2: d=3.000000e-02 (max. bounding sphere) mass%=70.000000%

Pairstyle gran/hook/history/simple: value of damping coefficients

Submitted by Yansan on Mon, 08/29/2011 - 17:38

Hi all,

I had a look at the gran/hook/history/simple pair_style today. I thought that this pair_style should make you able to directly set the values for kn, kt, gamman and gammat depending on the contact-partners. So I was wondering why the values for the damping coefficients (gamman and gammat) are multiplied by meff. The same modification is done for wall-contacts.

I think that should be changed otherwise you have to take the multiplications into account when you set the values in the input-script.

Regards,

Yansan

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