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Old   October 13, 2016, 15:51
Default 6DOF Solver - Center of Mass and Center of Rotation
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Hello,

I've tried defining both centreOfMass and centreOfRotation inside the dynamicMeshDict, as follows:

Code:
...
centreOfMass      (0.4 0 0.1)
centreOfRotation (-0.5 0 0.1)
...
After doing this, I recieve an error message as follows:

Code:
#0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:?
#1 Foam::sigFpe::sigHandler(int) at ??:?
#2 ? in "/lib/x86-64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6"
...
I see that from the sixDoFRigidBodyMotionState.C code that the solver will default to centreOfMass if the centreOfRotation isn't present:

Code:
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#include "sixDoFRigidBodyMotionState.H"

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Constructors  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

Foam::sixDoFRigidBodyMotionState::sixDoFRigidBodyMotionState()
:
    centreOfRotation_(vector::zero),
    Q_(I),
    v_(vector::zero),
    a_(vector::zero),
    pi_(vector::zero),
    tau_(vector::zero)
{}


Foam::sixDoFRigidBodyMotionState::sixDoFRigidBodyMotionState
(
    const dictionary& dict
)
:
    centreOfRotation_
    (
        dict.lookupOrDefault
        (
            "centreOfRotation",
            dict.lookupOrDefault("centreOfMass", vector::zero)
        )
    ),
    Q_(dict.lookupOrDefault("orientation", tensor::I)),
    v_(dict.lookupOrDefault("velocity", vector::zero)),
    a_(dict.lookupOrDefault("acceleration", vector::zero)),
    pi_(dict.lookupOrDefault("angularMomentum", vector::zero)),
    tau_(dict.lookupOrDefault("torque", vector::zero))
{}
But surely there should be a way I could define both in the same test case? Including the effects of gravity is significantly important for my test case (but I also need rotation), so having these two variables as separate is very important.

Thank you.
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