[sparta-users] Spatially dependent surface temperature for surf_collide

[Roshan M. T. <ros...@be...>]

Hi,

Surf_collide allows for a time-varying temperature using a variable as
temperature. However, is there a way to define spatially dependent
functions/variables? (I'd like temperature to be a function of the location
of the surface element.) I'm looking for something without changing the
source code.

Right now, I'm grouping some surfaces together and defining a separate
collision model for each, but the resolution is very low.

I found a few conversations here about the need for spatially dependent
surface temperature (e.g.,
https://sourceforge.net/p/sparta/mailman/message/36916227/ and
https://sourceforge.net/p/sparta/mailman/message/37852591/). It wasn't
available then.

So, have any of them been implemented, or is there an easy workaround?

Thanks
Roshan
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Roshan Mathew Tom | Ph.D. Candidate
Graduate Student Researcher
Computer Mechanics Laboratory
University of California Berkeley