Bug in fix insert/stream for the insert direction

Submitted by fengyi on Thu, 05/04/2017 - 09:19

As said in website: https://www.cfdem.com/media/DEM/docu/fix_insert_stream.html , "The insertion volume is generated by extruding the insertion face as specified via insertion_face in the direction of the face normal. "

Howerver, when I use the cfdemSolverPiso slover, I just invert the face normal of STL file as insert_face, and the insertion direction didn't change according to the postprocessing results.

the value of extrude_length couldn't be negative number, so I don't know how to set the insert direction.

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arnom | Mon, 06/12/2017 - 11:01

If you continue reading the doc it says: "The sign of this face normal is automatically flipped so that it is opposite to the normal component of the insertion velocity." So did you change the insertion velocity?

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