Model

Fields

• bodyframe – Function representing trajectory on reference frame rotating with the body.
• timespan – Tuple containing starting and ending time of motion.
• q_0 – Quaternion representing initial rotation.
• L_cm – Vector of angular momentum in relation to center of mass.

Only Initialized after solve:

• inertialframe – Function representing trajectory on inertial reference frame.
• rotation – Rotations that exchange between bodyframe and inertialframe.
• momentum – Internal angular momentum.

Store the data of a deformable body problem before and after solving.

PointMass(m, x)

Wrapper over a mass and a position on $R^3$.

This type overloads Quaternions.rotate to rotate only its position.

julia> a = PointMass(10, [1., 0, 0])
PointMass{Float64}(10.0, [1.0, 0.0, 0.0])

julia> rotate(a; axis=[0., 0., 1.], angle=π/2)
PointMass{Float64}(10.0, [2.220446049250313e-16, 1.0, 0.0])

angular_momentum(xs, vs)

Receive a system of PointMasses and their velocities, and return their angular momentum vector through formula

center_of_mass(xs)

Receive a system of PointMasses and return their center of mass through formula

centralize(xs)

Receive a system of PointMasses and translate it such that the center of mass is fixed on the origin.

inertia_tensor(xs)

Receive a system of PointMasses and return their inertia tensor through formula

mass(p::PointMass)

Return mass of a PointMass.

plotmodel(model, SoR; kw...)

Receive a Model and return a Plots.Animation from its data.

Arguments

• SoR: means "system of reference" and accepts one of the following symbols: :bodyframe, :inertialframe, :both.
• fps: frames per second. Default is 24.
• duration: length of animation in seconds. Default is the total timespan stored in m.
• saveas: filename to save animation, supported extensions are gif, mp4 or mov. If left blank, file is not saved.
• bodylines: Array of points pairs. Stores the data who says which points should be linked. Default is empty.
• markersize_is_mass: Says if attribute markersize should be weighted by the mass of each particle. Default is true.

Additionally, any keyword argument supported by Plots.plot is accepted and will be repassed to the plot.

Examples

julia> plotmodel(m, :both, fps=15, saveas="example.gif", color=:green,viewangle=(30,60))

pos(p::PointMass)

Return position of a PointMass.

saveanimation(anime, saveas; fps=30)

Receive an Plots.Animation and save it as a file.

Supported formats are 'gif', 'mp4' and 'mov'. The extension is automatically detected from saveas and, in case of ambiguity, defaults to '.gif'.

solve!(m::Model; reltol=1e-8, abstol=1e-8, solver=Tsit5())

Receive a Model, calculate the trajectory of the body on an inertial frame and store it in the variable m.inertialframe.

velocity(xs, t; δ=1e-6)

Numerically approximate the velocity for a set xs of trajectories at time t. The variable δ denotes the step for the finite differences interval.