Tutorials

This page has links to LAMMPS-related tutorial materials — either materials the LAMMPS developers have used or that were created by others. We’re also happy to list resources created and hosted by other groups that are of interest to people learning LAMMPS. Please contact the LAMMPS development team if you have links or documents you wish to contribute and post here.

We also hold LAMMPS workshops every two years in Albuquerque, NM, which include a beginners session where tutorial-style information is presented. See the Workshops page for details and PDFs of slides or video recordings.

LAMMPS tutorials (Gravelle et al.)

These tutorials are developed and maintained by Simon Gravelle at the LIPhy Institute in Grenoble, France, with help from the LAMMPS developers Jake Gissinger (Stevens Institute of Technology) and Axel Kohlmeyer (Temple U), and Cecilia Alvares (U of Warwick). They are a collection of step-by-step tutorials for building and simulating several different kinds of systems, aimed at beginners and intermediate users. They are tightly integrated with LAMMPS-GUI but can also be followed using the LAMMPS command-line version and a text editor.

• https://lammpstutorials.github.io/

CAVS tutorials (Tschopp)

A set of tutorials created by Mark Tschopp (now at US Army Research Lab) while at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at Mississippi State University, now hosted on GitHub:

• https://github.com/mrkllntschpp/lammps-tutorials

Running LAMMPS on HPC systems

The online workshop Running LAMMPS on HPC systems covers several aspects of how to run LAMMPS efficiently on HPC systems.

ICTP workshop (Trieste, March 2014)

Axel Kohlmeyer organized a LAMMPS Users and Developers Workshop and Symposium at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy in March 2014. See the program.

Steve Plimpton:

• LAMMPS Overview
• Simple LAMMPS Examples
• Modeling Thermal Transport and Viscosity with MD
• Modifying and Extending LAMMPS

Chris MacDermaid:

• Compiling LAMMPS
• VMD Visualization Scripting & TopoTools

Mario Orsi:

• Data Analysis & Scripting

Axel Kohlmeyer:

• OpenMP and GPU packages

Society of Rheology short course (Montreal, Oct 2013)

A short course, “Computational Rheology via LAMMPS,” was given by Jeremy Lechman, Matt Lane, and Steve Plimpton (Sandia). These are the slides used; there were additional hands-on sessions, some using the scripts in the examples/VISCOSITY directory of the LAMMPS distribution.

• Overview of MD
• Getting Started
• Handout: Getting Started with LAMMPS
• Tour of LAMMPS Features
• Hands-on: Simple LAMMPS Examples
• Atomistic Applications
• Coarse-grained Applications
• Common Equilibrium Calculations
• Hands-on: Equilibrium Calculations
• Common Non-Equilibrium Calculations
• Hands-on: Non-Equilibrium Calculations
• Building Complex Systems
• Modify LAMMPS / New Developments

Recorded talks

There are also many recorded LAMMPS talks and tutorial videos on YouTube, plus the official LAMMPS channel on the Videos page.