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Got problems running lpp.py to save dump files as VTK files

Submitted by Roesch on Thu, 02/27/2020 - 10:04

Hey everyone,

I'm using DEM for the first time and I have some troubles using the lpp/pizza postprocessing package.

when I'm running the lpp.py script in my post directory where the dumo files are located I get following error:

"python lpp.py
File "lpp.py", line 45
raise ValueError "Invalid or no argument given for chunksize"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax"

Is it a problem becaus of python2 and 3? Or what is the main issue I'm facing here?

Drop CAD under gravity

Submitted by bchang5 on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 20:44

Hi all,

Is it possible to drop a CAD file under the action of gravity? For example, I would like to drop a sphere CAD file into a bed of particles. I would like to see the depth at which the sphere stops moving.

I looked at the "movecad" command, but it seems like it is actively driving the CAD file with set kinematic parameters. But I want my CAD to start from rest, fall into bed of particles, and stop naturally by the action of the particles resisting. Is this possible?

Best,
Brian

segmentation fault

Submitted by tjleps on Thu, 02/20/2020 - 23:10

We seem to have developed a segmentation fault on our CENTOS 8 system. Everything was working fine, then all of a sudden we started getting seg faults on our scripts. I've tried downloading a fresh copy of LIGGGHTS and recompiling with $make auto, and I've reinstalled openmpi and openmpi-devel, but we're still getting the same faults. I'm unable to even run the examples. Has anyone had a similar problem?

output from running cohesion :

computing clusters

Submitted by driley on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 07:17

I am using the compute cluster/atom with a distance of 10 times the radius of my atoms. However, I am getting an error because my cluster/atom cutoff is longer than my pairwise cutoff distance.

I have two questions:
1) How do I increase the pairwise cutoff distance?

2) Will I run into potential errors by increasing the pairwise cutoff distance to a much larger value?

dump total force on particle

Submitted by Rahul Kumar on Sat, 02/08/2020 - 11:22

Dear all
I am using the following command to dump the particle information. I am interested total force acting on the particle including weight of particle and all interaction forces. For this I am using the following command.

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dump dmp all custom/vtk ${nstep} post/two_wall/particle_*.vtk id type type x y z ix iy iz vx vy vz fx fy fz omegax omegay omegaz radius
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The above command dumps the value of forces as zero for most of the time. I am NOT sure about what LIGGGHTS is dumping as fx fy fz

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