4. Information for Developers

This section describes the internal structure and basic algorithms of the LAMMPS code. This is a work in progress and additional information will be added incrementally depending on availability of time and requests from the LAMMPS user community.

• 4.1. Source files
• 4.2. Class topology
• 4.3. How a timestep works
• 4.4. Writing new styles
• 4.5. Notes for Developers and Code Maintainers
• 4.6. Adding tests for unit testing
• 4.7. C++ base classes
• 4.8. Utility functions
• 4.9. Tokenizer classes
• 4.10. File reader classes
• 4.11. Memory pool classes
• 4.12. Eigensolver functions
• 4.13. Communication buffer coding with ubuf