Contact simulation with a general surface mesh ( not a closed mesh)

[Yongjin Guo]

I hope to simulate the contact between a pair of un-closed surface meshes, like a general face contact with another face (the two faces are modeled with meshes). Can Chrono Engine handle this senario? Thanks a lot!

The background is that I need to add some perturbations which are defined for an individual face to the face mesh's node coordinates. It is known that the pair of faces may contact (like modeling cam surface contact) and they are properly placed relave to each other at the beginning before they are moved with their owner bodyAuxRef.

The Chrono examples show that closed meshes for bodies can be used. But I am not sure about unclosed meshes.

Best wishes,

Yongjin