[PULL REQUEST] VPM-B Attempt 2.

Jan Darowski jan.darowski at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 12:40:06 PDT 2015


No problem, but before that I want to check one place I suspect can be wrong...

2015-07-07 21:33 GMT+02:00 Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>:
> 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



-- 
Jan Darowski


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