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[Janek Kozicki <cosurgi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bruno Chareyre said:     (by the date of Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:46:35 +0100)

> Hello all,
> 
> There is few modifications to be made in the equations of damping (force 
> and momentum).
> The current equations are of the type : for i=1,...,3 { f[i] *= 1- 
> damping * sign(f[i]*vel[i]); }
> 
> in fact it should be : f *= 1- damping * sign(f.vel);  (where *= denotes 
> product between vector and real and "." is the scalar product of two 
> vectors).
> 
> It can make a difference in some cases.
> 
> If everybody agree, I'll try to correct this and commit the change to 
> the SVN repository. In the meantime I suggest that everybody doing 
> calculation with Yade change the corresponding lines in force and 
> momentum damping engines. (Luc : does this little sphere roll to the 
> bottom of the big sphere with these new equations?)

please commit this :)

I thought that this damping code was a copy/paste from SDEC, wasn't it ?

Perhaps I was discussing this with Luc Sibille and he confirmed that
this is a correctly copied from SDEC. I can't remember now ;)

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# Janek Kozicki
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