Inertia - Simulate inertia in mechanical rotational systems

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Mechanical Rotational Elements

Description

The Inertia block represents an ideal mechanical rotational inertia, described with the following equation:

where

TInertia torque
JInertia
ωAngular velocity
tTime

The block has one mechanical rotational conserving port. The block positive direction is from its port to the reference point. This means that the inertia torque is positive if inertia is accelerated in positive direction.

Dialog Box and Parameters

Inertia

Inertia. The default value is 0.001 kg*m^2.

Initial velocity

Initial angular velocity of the inertia. This parameter specifies the initial condition for use in computing the block's initial state at the beginning of a simulation run. For more information, see Computing Initial Conditions. The default value is 0.

Ports

The block has one mechanical rotational conserving port, associated with the inertia connection to the system.

See Also

Mass

  


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