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. Writing plugins
• 4.7. Adding tests for unit testing
• 4.8. C++ base classes
• 4.9. Utility functions
• 4.10. Tokenizer classes
• 4.11. Argument parsing classes
• 4.12. File reader classes
• 4.13. Memory pool classes
• 4.14. Eigensolver functions
• 4.15. Communication buffer coding with ubuf