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In applied mathematics, a damping matrix is a matrix corresponding to any of certain systems of linear ordinary differential equations. A damping matrix is defined as follows. If the system has n degrees of freedom un and is under application of m damping forces. Each force can be expressed as follows:

      f
      
        D
        i
      
    
    =
    
      c
      
        i
        1
      
    
    
      
        
          
            u
            
              1
            
          
          ˙
        
      
    
    +
    
      c
      
        i
        2
      
    
    
      
        
          
            u
            
              2
            
          
          ˙
        
      
    
    +
    ⋯
    +
    
      c
      
        i
        n
      
    
    
      
        
          
            u
            
              n
            
          
          ˙
        
      
    
    =
    
      ∑
      
        j
        =
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        n
      
    
    
      c
      
        i
        ,
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            u
            
              j
            
          
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{\displaystyle f_{Di}=c_{i1}{\dot {u_{1}}}+c_{i2}{\dot {u_{2}}}+\cdots +c_{in}{\dot {u_{n}}}=\sum _{j=1}^{n}c_{i,j}{\dot {u_{j}}}}

It yields in matrix form;

      F
      
        D
      
    
    =
    C
    
      
        
          U
          ˙
        
      
    
  

{\displaystyle F_{D}=C{\dot {U}}}

where C is the damping matrix composed by the damping coefficients:

    C
    =
    (
    
      c
      
        i
        ,
        j
      
    
    
      )
      
        1
        ≤
        i
        ≤
        n
        ,
        1
        ≤
        j
        ≤
        m
      
    
  

{\displaystyle C=(c_{i,j})_{1\leq i\leq n,1\leq j\leq m}}