[PULL REQUEST] VPM-B Attempt 2.

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Jul 7 12:33:32 PDT 2015


On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 09:29:19PM +0200, Jan Darowski wrote:
> I think I will check all the units once again. But it's true that it's
> another mistake on the deepocean.net
> The real values are 0.257 N/m and 0.0179 N/m (paper by Baker confirms)
> but these constants are always (that's what I will check again) in the
> context like: pressure + skin_compression / radius.
> Pressure is given in bars, skin_compression in N/m and radius in
> microns. Chaos. We can change pressure to 10^5 N/m^2 and we get  10^5
> N/m^2 + (N/m) / 10^-6m.
> That's the reason why these parameters are *10: so we could have
> calculations using bars and microns.

I'm fine with scaling them so that the code gets easier to read.
Let's just make sure we then document the unit that results in and explain
WHY we use those units.

/D


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