[ODE] .NET wrapper - Materials

Gary R. Van Sickle g.r.vansickle at worldnet.att.net
Thu Jan 30 00:47:01 2003


> You would get N^2 possible material interactions, but I was sort of hoping
> that there would be an easy way to compute reasonable values for contact
> properties without creating an N^2 table of data.  For example, use the
> lower of the 2 mu values, the larger of the two CFM values, and so on.

I would think you'd want to combine the two in some fashion, eg.:

mu_collision = (mu1+mu2)/2;


> Then again, for small values of N (less than 10?), a whole table wouldn't
> be so bad.
>

The trouble is, in computer science, there are no "small values of N" ;-).
 
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