CFDEM®coupling stands for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) - Discrete Element Method (DEM) coupling. It combines the open source packages OpenFOAM® (CFD) and LIGGGHTS® (DEM) to simulate particle-laden flows. CFDEM®coupling is part of the CFDEM®project.

This is an academic adaptation of the CFDEM®coupling software package, released by the Department of Particulate Flow Modelling at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. LIGGGHTS® and CFDEM® are registered trademarks, and this offering is not approved or endorsed by DCS Computing GmbH, the official producer of the LIGGGHTS® and CFDEM®coupling software. This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, producer and distributor of the OpenFOAM software via www.openfoam.com, and owner of the OPENFOAM® and OpenCFD® trade marks.

• Documentation and tutorials to get started
• A modular approach that allows for easy implementation of new models
• MPI parallelization for large scale problems

• This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
• Copyright © 2009- JKU Linz
• Copyright © 2012-2015 DCS Computing GmbH, Linz
• Some parts of CFDEM®coupling are based on OpenFOAM® and Copyright on these parts is held by the OpenFOAM® Foundation (www.openfoam.org) and potentially other parties.
• Some parts of CFDEM®coupling are contributed by other parties, which are holding the Copyright. This is listed in each file of the distribution.