Re: [Yade-users] [Question #692956]: Implementing orbital motion

2020-09-17 Thread Janek Kozicki
Question #692956 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/692956 Janek Kozicki posted a new comment: You are welcome. Don't hesitate to ask again :) Small fix in previous message: "starting acceleration and position" → of course I meant position and velocity :) -- You

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #692956]: Implementing orbital motion

2020-09-17 Thread Rohit John
Question #692956 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/692956 Status: Open => Solved Rohit John confirmed that the question is solved: Hello, Thank you Janek for your advice. I shall try this. -- You received this question notification because your team yade-users

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #692956]: Implementing orbital motion

2020-09-16 Thread Janek Kozicki
Question #692956 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/692956 Janek Kozicki posted a new comment: > Can I add a new function for defining a the forces using the > Clohessy–Wiltshire equationsin the GravityEngines.cpp > based on the other functions in the file? Are there

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #692956]: Implementing orbital motion

2020-09-16 Thread Janek Kozicki
Question #692956 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/692956 Janek Kozicki posted a new comment: Yeah, CentralGravityEngine is a really bad name. I don't think it is used very often in yade so we could rename it to something like CentralAccelerationEngine. Then you could

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #692956]: Implementing orbital motion

2020-09-16 Thread Rohit John
Question #692956 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/692956 Status: Needs information => Open Rohit John gave more information on the question: Hello, Thanks for your answers reply to Robert's comments. > Even if what you say is true (which seems odd to me), why

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #692956]: Implementing orbital motion

2020-09-16 Thread Janek Kozicki
Question #692956 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/692956 Janek Kozicki posted a new comment: Heh, sorry. I didn't use easier to read refs [1][2][3][4]. [1] https://yade-dem.org/doc/yade.qt.html#yade.qt._GLViewer.center [2]

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #692956]: Implementing orbital motion

2020-09-16 Thread Robert Caulk
Question #692956 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/692956 Status: Open => Needs information Robert Caulk requested more information: Hello, I am a little confused. >The CentralGravityEngine will not work because the length scale involved would be of the order of

[Yade-users] [Question #692956]: Implementing orbital motion

2020-09-16 Thread Rohit John
New question #692956 on Yade: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/692956 Hello, I want to simulate the motion of debris (a cube made of pfacet) and a group of cylinders orbiting around the Earth. To do this, I want to use the Clohessy–Wiltshire equations [1]. I thought I could use the