Setting Initial speed for vehicles

[Prabasgarage]

Dear community,

I am trying to set initial speed of a vehicle to 40mph. Is there a way to set initial speed of the vehicle in chrono? 

Thanks,

Prabanjan

[dr.ratz...@gmail.com]

Hi,

our vehicle models have a member function 'void SetInitFwdVel(double fwdVel)'. If you for example use

double forward_velocity = 40.0 * 0.44704; // convert mph into m/s

HMMW myCar;

...

myCar.SetInitFwdVel(forward_velocity);

...

myCar.Initialize();

The initial velocity is set now, but the vehicle need some time to reach steady state yet.