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CFDEM®coupling - Open Source CFD-DEM coupling
CFD-DEM coupling toolbox, released by
DCS Computing GmbH, Linz, Austria
www.dcs-computing.com, office@dcs-computing.com
CFDEM®coupling is part of the CFDEM®project
www.cfdem.com
CFDEM®coupling 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 part of CFDEMproject:
www.liggghts.com | www.cfdem.com
Core developer and main author:
Christoph Goniva, christoph.goniva@dcs-computing.com
LIGGGHTS® and CFDEM® are registered trade marks of DCS Computing GmbH,
the producer of the LIGGGHTS® software and the CFDEM®coupling software
See http://www.cfdem.com/terms-trademark-policy for details.
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Copyright
Copyright 2012- DCS Computing GmbH, Linz
Copyright 2009-2015 JKU Linz
Some parts of CFDEMcoupling 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 CFDEMcoupling are contributied by other parties, which are
holding the Copyright. This is listed in each file of the distribution.
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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
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Description
This code provides models and solvers to realize coupled CFD-DEM simulations
using LIGGGHTS® and OpenFOAM® technology.
Note: this code is not part of OpenFOAM®.
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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CFDEM® coupling provides an open source parallel coupled CFD-DEM framework
combining the strengths of LIGGGHTS® DEM code and the Open Source
CFD package OpenFOAM®(*). The CFDEM®coupling toolbox allows to expand
standard CFD solvers of OpenFOAM®(*) to include a coupling to the DEM
code LIGGGHTS®. 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 "forum" (www.cfdem.com) on CFD-DEM gives the possibility
to exchange with other users / developers
- the use of GIT allows to easily update to the latest version
- basic documentation is provided
The CFDEM®coupling distribution includes the following files and directories:
- "README" file (this file)
- "COPYING" file the GNU General Public License (GPL)
- "DISCLAIMER" file
- "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®coupling
- "tutorials" directory including basic tutorial cases showing the functionality
Details on installation are given on the "www.cfdem.com" website.
The functionality of this CFD-DEM framwork is described via "tutorial cases" showing
how to use different solvers and models.
CFDEM®coupling stands for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) -
Discrete Element Method (DEM) coupling.
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(*) 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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Hamedhoorijani/CFDEMcoupling-PUBLIC
latest version of CFDEM®coupling toolbox, released by DCS Computing GmbH
CGPL-3.0