Re: [Yade-users] [Question #403469]: How to set the damping coefficient of a crowd of powders

2016-10-26 Thread Yufan Zhao
Question #403469 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/403469 Status: Answered => Solved Yufan Zhao confirmed that the question is solved: Thanks Bruno Chareyre, that solved my question. -- You received this question notification because your team yade-users is an

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #403469]: How to set the damping coefficient of a crowd of powders

2016-10-26 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #403469 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/403469 Status: Open => Answered Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer: >"your meaning that there is no physical damping" I meant that NewtonIntegrator::damping is a numerical trick to slow down the system.

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #403469]: How to set the damping coefficient of a crowd of powders

2016-10-25 Thread Yufan Zhao
Question #403469 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/403469 Status: Answered => Open Yufan Zhao is still having a problem: Bruno, thank you very much. But I don't know your meaning that there is no physical damping clearly. "kinetic energy of particles needs to be

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #403469]: How to set the damping coefficient of a crowd of powders

2016-10-25 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #403469 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/403469 Bruno Chareyre posted a new comment: I meant to make damping zero after the initial deposit is stable. If yo umake it zero from the beginning the gravitational deposition will take ages. -- You received this

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #403469]: How to set the damping coefficient of a crowd of powders

2016-10-25 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #403469 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/403469 Status: Open => Answered Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer: Hi, I would suggest to make Newton's damping 0 in such case, since it is not a physical damping. The question is if you need damping

[Yade-users] [Question #403469]: How to set the damping coefficient of a crowd of powders

2016-10-25 Thread Yufan Zhao
New question #403469 on Yade: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/403469 Hello everyone, I have a problem in setting the damping coefficient of powders. Could any one teach me how to determine this parameter. My simulation is setting a cloud of metal powders which are settled down on