LIGGGHTS

LIGGGHTS® - LAMMPS Improved for General Granular and Granular Heat Transfer Simulations - is a discrete element method (DEM) particle simulation software. LIGGGHTS® is part of the CFDEM®project and is based on the molecular dynamics simulation code LAMMPS.

Disclaimer

This is an adaptation of particulate flow modelling department LIGGGHTS.

Installation

This is a short summary of how to install LIGGGHTS on Linux. A more comprehensive guide can be found in the documentation.

Install prerequisites

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake openmpi-bin libopenmpi-dev python-dev

We recommend installing LIGGGHTS to a directory named CFDEM, especially when used with CFDEMcoupling.

cd
mkdir -p CFDEM
cd CFDEM

Clone or download the LIGGGHTS source from the repository.

Build LIGGGHTS with CMake

cd LIGGGHTS_BE
mkdir -p src-build
cd src-build
cmake ../src/
make

Add an alias

You may want to create a permanent alias for the executable.

gedit ~/.bashrc &
alias liggghts='~/CFDEM/LIGGGHTS_BE/src-build/liggghts'
source ~/.bashrc

License

• This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
• Copyright © 2003 Sandia Corporation. Under the terms of Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software.