"Popping" behaviour

Submitted by schteppe on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 14:59

I've done a simulation with three thousand granular particles in a container with a blade stirring them around. See video on the URL below:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B2EIcnb16wvuZWRmZWRiYTktMGQ4OS00OWMzLTk...

If you look closely, you see that some of the particle's got a "popping" behaviour, it's like small explosions shooting away some of the particles. What am I doing wrong?

Attached are the compressed input script + STL files.

Regards,
Stefan

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ckloss | Tue, 04/05/2011 - 09:43

please upgrade to the most recent version (1.2.8 to be released today), and if the problem persists, let me know
Also, your time-step is pretty high (probably too high)

Christoph

schteppe | Tue, 04/05/2011 - 13:43

I upgraded to 1.2.7 from the liggghtsdev git repos and set the timestep to 0.00001. Looks completely fine now!
Thanks for the help and for all the great work you've put into this software :)

Stefan