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Reading external data
Posted 26 lug 2012, 10:28 GMT-4 Acoustics & Vibrations Version 4.2a 5 Replies
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have you considered to use an interpolated (higher order such as 2nd or 3rd order) function on your experimental function, this will gve a rather "smooth" shape, no ?
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Ivar
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what is for you the difference of the actual measured step-wise wavepoints and an interpolated polynomial function based on your data ?
The second case is smoother and alos the solver to take intermediate steps, and to calculate coerrect derivatives hence converges better.
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5 0
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even if your function looks like he product of a sinus and a gaussian, there is no reason why you can not load it, as is, into an interpolation table function in COMSOL, and as you have a fixed time stepping you can set a time stepping solver to strict stepping and range(0,0.05,5) and refer to your function for the BC condition of need. Then the result should be strictly based on your data.
You can also, as you have some 10 points per period, derive a derivative by a simple difference operator, if really needed
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Ivar