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Personalized heat source
Posted 4 gen 2013, 04:05 GMT-5 Heat Transfer & Phase Change, Modeling Tools & Definitions, Parameters, Variables, & Functions 7 Replies
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I am a novice in use of COMSOL, I want to simulate the propagation of heat through a material, sounds easy but my heat source is a surface defined by a matrix (every pixel is a source with its own magnitude),
I want to know if COMSOL can simulate this kind of source, and how?!
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check the Forum on importing an interpolation function "Data source Files with "Use Space coordinates as arguments", then apply this interpolation function into your BC entries.
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Ivar
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Thank you very much,
With some standing back I see that my request was "basic"!
Now I have an other question, to define my function I need to export data from matlab, witch are defined on a certain variation range, how can I indicate to COMSOL that my function is equal to 0 out that range ?
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In the Interpolation function's settings window, under "Interpolation and Extrapolation", choose "Specific value" from the Extrapolation list. The default for "Value outside range" is 0, so that should give you the desired behavior.
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Magnus Ringh
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That's exactly what I want, thanks,
When i enter my function in heat source, it becomes orange, telling me that the unit given not expected, depite I didn't define any unit neither in my folder nor in the expression of my function, any idea ?!
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COMSOL might apply default units, check your "physics node", most operators are to be made unit-less. Anyhow "orange" is a warning no error it solves anyhow, but there might be a conversion and numerical scaling issue
x,y,z and t have default units I believe
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Ivar
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My guess is that you have not assigned units to the input argument and function output in the Units section of the Interpolation function. Using
Arguments: K
Function: W/m^3
defines an interpolation function where the heat source values (W/m^3) are functions of the temperature (K).
If you want to treat the interpolation function as a unitless function, you need to "de-dimensionalize" the temperature variable used as argument when calling the function using unit syntax: T[1/K]
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Magnus Ringh, COMSOL
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