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Consitent Initial Values error

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Hi all,
I am trying to analyze thermal expansion of a gold nano sphere by laser heating. I managed to compile EM wave heating using Electromagnetic Waves Frequency Domain (ewfd) physics and use its resisitive heating as a heat source in heat transfer physics(ht). However on trying to solve thermal expansion by adding the third physics (solid mechanics), I noticed the 'electric field' in the time dependent solver turning automatically to 'electric field (spatial)' and getting the following error:

Failed to find consistent initial values.
Undefined variable.
Variable: comp1.Ez,.............

Could somebody please help me?

0 Replies Last Post 22 nov 2015, 22:56 GMT-5
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