CFDEM®coupling, LIGGGHTS® and ParScale - Announcements from the developers

CFDEM coupling version 2.5.0 released (released Feb 06, 2013)
by DCS computing GmbH
changes and new features:
+ CFDEMcoupling works with the latest version of LIGGGHTS (currently 2.2.4)
+ improvements to clock model (track CPU and memorry usage) - thx to Josef
+ update of cfdemSolverIB to account for particles entering a domain
+ minor changes to cfdemPostproc utility
+ removed region model
+ additinal aliases to compile solver, src, utilities separately
+ improvements to runLiggghts liggghts command model (uses pre no by default)

LIGGGHTS 2.2.4: (released 24 January 2013)

Christian Richter (OVGU) compiled an installation tutorial on his blog:

LIGGGHTS under Windows (R)

LIGGGHTS 2.2.3: (released 29 November 2012)

We're sorry for the downtime, after an uptime of 3 years in a row we experienced problems with our ISP. We understand that discussion boards and online help are vital to an open source project and are doing our best to improve this

The CFDEMproject team.

LIGGGHTS 2.2.2: (released 14 November 2012)

+ One more commit for new dump atom/vtk functionality (see yesterday's release).

However, there are some restrictions in 2.2.2 (see below) which will be relaxed over time:
+ fix breakparticle/force is not yet available

LIGGGHTS 2.2.1: (released 13 November 2012)

+ Added a dump atom/vtk command which now enables LIGGGHTS to write to VTK files directly. However, this requires LIGGGHTS to link against VTK libraries, see the new makefile Makefile.ubuntuVTK for an example how to do this. Thanks a lot to Anton Gladky (TU Freiberg) for this contribution.
+ Added a CMake ("Cross Platform Make", www.cmake.org) build system for LIGGGHTS. Thanks again to Anton Gladky (TU Freiberg) for setting this up.

This is posted on behalf of Axel Kohlmeyer (LAMMPS developer).
We're thinking about extending this to comprise LIGGGHTS topics as well.
If so, we'll announce in due time. Anyway, this will be interesting for anyone
doing code dev with LIGGGHTS and CFDEMcoupling

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hi everybody,

since there are quite a few people here subscribed to the list that
not only use LAMMPS but add their own new features to it (or plan
or were tasked to do it), i would like to draw your attention to a

LIGGGHTS 2.2: (released 8 October 2012)

A couple of updates and improvements for surface mesh import and handling:

3 Open PhD Positions at CD Lab on Particulate Flow Modelling, JKU Linz

Computer Science: "Efficiency and Quality Control for Particle Simulations", together with Temple University (US)

CFD: "Numerical Simulation of Pneumatic Conveying of Powders"

DEM: "Material 2 Simulation 2 Application"