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Hi all,

I am trying to import the result from Quickwave simulation (a Electromagnetic field simulation software) and use the temperature distribution obtained from Quickwave in Comsol for further heat transfer study.

I plotted the target system, mesh it with FDTD method (which is the equations solving method in Quickwave), then apply microwave heating equations, and obtain temperature in each mesh. Now I would like to use this temperature distribution in Comsol for heat convection study. But the mesh obtained from Quickwave can only be opened as text file. They are conformal mesh, not free triangle ones, according to the solving method. I am able to get the dimension of each mesh, but do not know how to import it into Comsol 4.0. It seems that Comsol can only import the *.mphtxt and *.mphbin files.

Another question is, how can I assign the temperature to each mesh in Comsol even if I can obtain the same mesh as in Quickwave? In heat transfer module, I can only assign ONE initial value for a object, but not define temperature in each cell/mesh.

All in all, I have a data set of mesh and temperature distribution and would like to apply them in Comsol 4.0. I didnot use the RF module in Comsol for microwave heating since Quickwave can give me a better simulation results. Any comments and suggestions are appreciated, thanks.