2020-03-10 Meeting notes Dariel

Date

10 Mar 2020

Attendees

• Thomas Weinhart

• Anthony Thornton
• @dariel

Discussion items

• Prolate ellipsoids don't work; Mercury does not detect overlaps
• Blockiness of 0.1 causes contact point detection to fail
• The paper by Alexander P. on which the Mercury algorithm is based says convergence is guaranteed for blockiness >0.25
  
  • Dariel will take a look whether this can be fixed
• Dariel corrected the distribution of angles (relative to the velocity vector) by sin(theta)/2, but the data for spheres (AR=1) is not perfectly uniform (it should be); also, the data has a large standard deviation
  
  • I told him to use the data files instead of the restart files because they contain more timesteps; and look for errors