This is an academic adaptation of the CFDEMcoupling software package, released by the Department of Particulate Flow Modelling at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria http://www.jku.at/pfm
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cfdemcoupling-pfm's Introduction
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CFDEMcoupling - Open Source CFD-DEM coupling
CFDEMcoupling is part of the CFDEMproject
www.cfdem.com
Christoph Goniva, [email protected]
Copyright 2009-2012 JKU Linz
Copyright 2012-2015 DCS Computing GmbH, Linz
Copyright 2015- JKU Linz
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License
This file is part of CFDEMcoupling.
CFDEMcoupling is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
CFDEMcoupling is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with CFDEMcoupling; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Description
This code provides models and solvers to realize coupled CFD-DEM simulations
using LIGGGHTS and OpenFOAM.
Note: this code is not part of OpenFOAM (see DISCLAIMER).
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CFDEM(R) coupling provides an open source parallel coupled CFD-DEM framework
combining the strengths of the LIGGGHTS(R) DEM code and the Open Source
CFD package OpenFOAM(R)(*). The CFDEM(R)coupling toolbox allows to expand
standard CFD solvers of OpenFOAM(R)(*) to include a coupling to the DEM
code LIGGGHTS(R). In this toolbox the particle representation within the
CFD solver is organized by "cloud" classes. Key functionalities are organised
in sub-models (e.g. force models, data exchange models, etc.) which can easily
be selected and combined by dictionary settings.
The coupled solvers run fully parallel on distributed-memory clusters.
Features are:
- its modular approach allows users to easily implement new models
- its MPI parallelization enables to use it for large scale problems
- the use of GIT allows to easily update to the latest version
- basic documentation is provided
The file structure:
- "src" directory including the source files of the coupling toolbox and models
- "applications" directory including the solver files for coupled CFD-DEM simulations
- "doc" directory including the documentation of CFDEM(R)coupling
- "tutorials" directory including basic tutorial cases showing the functionality
Details on installation are given on the "www.cfdem.com"
The functionality of this CFD-DEM framwork is described via "tutorial cases" showing
how to use different solvers and models.
CFDEM(R)coupling stands for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) -
Discrete Element Method (DEM) coupling.
CFDEM(R)coupling is an open-source code, distributed freely under the terms of the
GNU Public License (GPL).
Core development of CFDEM(R)coupling is done by
Christoph Goniva and Christoph Kloss, both at DCS Computing GmbH, 2012
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(*) "OpenFOAM(R)" is a registered trade mark of OpenCFD Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the ESI Group.
This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, the producer of the OpenFOAM software and owner of the OPENFOAM® and OpenCFD® trade marks.
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