Hi, Bruno: This is a post that I have sent to Vaclav already,
1. Actually, the non-viscous damping (or say local damping in PFC's manual) is not a proper energy dissipation method for some problems, which will create unrealistic results, since the model its self is not very realistic under some conditions, think about a rock free fall, use damping coefficient alpha=XXX, I think it unreasonable for reducing its kinetic energy YYY while it is flying in the air since the resistance is not so great, in some problem (for example, fluid) you should set the XXX to zero and use viscous damping instead to produce meaningful results. 2. I doubt whether it is good to use kinetic energy to evaluate the degree that the system comes to equilibrium, since for a mass-spring system, when the kinetic energy is zero, the potential energy is the maximum, if you want to use some criterion to stop the simulation, you cannot use the kinetic energy alone to judge. I am trying to post viscous damping that I am using and shown some verification in one of our publications (1D DEM paper in the publications page), after I discuss with my advisor I would like to release the viscous damping code to SVN, but I don't know if it will reduce the energy from 1e-3 to 1e-9 and then to any further in your problem. Feng -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Bruno Chareyre Sent: Tue 12/23/2008 1:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Yade-users] dissipating all energy in a packing > 2. I could try to make cundall's damping to always diminish the force > iff the coefficient is <0 (.e.g damping==-.3 would mean to always reduce > the force to ×.7), what do you think? > > This is a very interesting problem, but honestly I thought to this hard (and I tried many different dampings on 1D oscillators) and couldn't find any good idea. I always end with the basic Cundall's damping being the most efficient and versatile damping. I'm still open to suggestions though. Note that these 2-steps oscillations are sensitive to the time increment, so it is just one more aspect of numerical instability with inapropriate timesteps (and in fact, I think Cundall's damping is so that if the undamped scheme is stable, the damped scheme will be stable too, I have no instant-proof of that though). The only question is : can damping revert the velocity to a greater opposite value in one (or even two) step? In principle it can not. If I understand the idea above correctly, you would multiply all forces by 0.7 whatever the direction relative to velocity? Well, in one sense, it would just mean a change in timescale (slowing down all motions by a factor of 0.7...). The problem is it would damp no energy at all. In terms of stability, it would have exactly the same effect as decreasing the time increment. What value are you using for damping? In order to decrease kinetic energy even more (you need to normalise kinetic energy with elastic energy btw, or you can't tell if the value is "high" or "small", why do you say it's not small enough?), I would set it to something around 0.1, and I would try reducing the timestep by a factor of ~0.8. It is useless to increase the damping to higher values in most cases. The PFC default : 0.7, is some of the worst idea they had if you ask me. Higher (than the optimal value) damping means slower convergence to equilibrium when "convergence" implies some rearangements in the packing (instead of just damped oscillations in a completely elastic problem). When you are close to equilibrium, you always have this last grain that will move a little, then trigger a local instability that will spread to all the sample, which leads to small changes in each particle's equilibrium state. This is the sort of events that can be a lot slower with a large damping. Bruno > Regards, Vaclav > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-users > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > > > > -- _______________ Chareyre Bruno Maitre de conference Grenoble INP Laboratoire 3SR - bureau E145 BP 53 - 38041, Grenoble cedex 9 - France Tél : 33 4 56 52 86 21 Fax : 33 4 76 82 70 43 ________________ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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