From de69e2455102bbeffbadfa7a3a4192036aa72d6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trung Nguyen <ndactrung@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:05:32 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added replies to Steve's questions

---
 doc/src/pair_body_rounded_polygon.txt    |  8 +++++---
 doc/src/pair_body_rounded_polyhedron.txt | 10 +++++++---
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/pair_body_rounded_polygon.txt b/doc/src/pair_body_rounded_polygon.txt
index b4135a4065..ea77fa9247 100644
--- a/doc/src/pair_body_rounded_polygon.txt
+++ b/doc/src/pair_body_rounded_polygon.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ cohesive interactions?  If so, this should be explained up above.
 But an additional confusion is that the specied cutoff (Rc in diagram?)
 is a single number, but depedning on the orientiation of the 2
 particles they might have a suface/surface overlap at a much
-smaller value of Ri + Rj.  So what is Rc then?
+smaller value of Ri + Rj.  So what is Rc then? - I added
+the following paragraph to address this.
 
 Note that F_n and F_t are functions of the surface separation
 \delta_n = d - (R_i + R_j).
@@ -100,8 +101,9 @@ k_n (energy/distance^2 units)
 k_na (energy/distance^2 units) :ul
 
 Effectively, k_n and k_na are the slopes of the red lines in the plot
-above for force versus distance, for r < 0 and 0 < r < rc
-respectively.  TRUNG: is this sentence correct?
+above for force versus surface separation, for \delta_n < 0 and 0 < \delta_n < r_c
+respectively.  (TRUNG: is this sentence correct? - it should read delta_n,
+instead of r)
 
 TRUNG: reminder to copy any change in this file
 to the pair polyhedron file as well (and vice versa)
diff --git a/doc/src/pair_body_rounded_polyhedron.txt b/doc/src/pair_body_rounded_polyhedron.txt
index 3f0a2403d0..cb4ec00917 100644
--- a/doc/src/pair_body_rounded_polyhedron.txt
+++ b/doc/src/pair_body_rounded_polyhedron.txt
@@ -46,7 +46,10 @@ this paragraph would make more sense in the body.txt file about how to
 create a model that includes non-body particles (spheres).  And in
 this pair style file just a couple lines about which part of the
 interactions this pair style computes.  Ditto in the pair body polygon
-file.
+file. - The pair style supports body/sphere and sphere/sphere
+given that all the atoms should be of body rounded/polyhedron.
+I updated the above paragraph and added examples in body.txt for
+specifying the special objects (i.e. spheres and rods).
 
 This pairwise interaction between the rounded polyhedra is described in
 "Wang"_#Wang, where a polyhedron does not have sharp corners and
@@ -94,8 +97,9 @@ k_n (energy/distance^2 units)
 k_na (energy/distance^2 units) :ul
 
 Effectively, k_n and k_na are the slopes of the red lines in the plot
-above for force versus distance, for r < 0 and 0 < r < rc
-respectively.  TRUNG: is this sentence correct?
+above for force versus surface separation, for \delta_n < 0 and 0 < \delta_n < r_c
+respectively.  (TRUNG: is this sentence correct? - it should read delta_n,
+instead of r)
 
 [Mixing, shift, table, tail correction, restart, rRESPA info]:
 
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