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# CFDEMcoupling
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](https://www.cfdem.com).
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## Disclaimer
> 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.](https://www.jku.at/pfm)
> 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.
## Features
- Documentation and tutorials to get started
- A modular approach that allows for easy implementation of new models
- MPI parallelization for large scale problems
## License
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- This software is distributed under the [GNU General Public License](https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0).
- 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.