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1234hoedjevanpapier
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transient boundary conditions

Post by 1234hoedjevanpapier »

Hi all,

I was wondering if it is possible to define time-dependent boundary conditions (for example temperatures or heat fluxes) in ElmerGUI? Is it also possible to read time-dependent profiles from textfiles?

thanks for your help.

regards,

Jeroen
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Re: transient boundary conditions

Post by 1234hoedjevanpapier »

Dear elmer team,

I found out that the 'scanning' mode can be used to define time dependent boundary conditions? I ran a test case, but thus far the temperature boundary does not change. I added a profile for boundary condition 3 with the following code, similar to a previous post viewtopic.php?f=3&t=274&p=928&hilit=scanning#p928:

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Boundary Condition 3
  Target Boundaries(1) = 3
  Name = "Time_boundary"
  Temperature = Variable Time
  Real
 0 266.65
 1 266.05 
 2 265.85
 3 265.45
 4 265.25
 5 265.05
 6 264.85
 7 264.55
 8 264.65
 9 265.25
 10 266.45
 11 267.25
 12 268.15
 13 268.75
 14 269.15
 15 269.25
 16 269.45
 17 268.75
 18 269.15
 19 269.75
 20 269.65
 21 269.75
 22 270.05
 23 269.95 
  End
End
the first column is the time step, the second the corresponding temperature. But when postprocessing, the temperatures on boundary 3 do not correspond to the profile I defined/ don't change with time. I put the case in the attachment. What am I doing wrong?

thanks for your help,

Jeroen
test.zip
input file and mesh
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Re: transient boundary conditions

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Hi Jaroen

As you have a real dependence on time you should use "Simulation Type" "transient" ("scanning" is intended for doing a number os steady state simulations varying some parameters). Then you can have your BCs depend on "time" in three different ways: table, MATC expression, UDF. For more examples look for instance http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/physics ... Manual.pdf p. 10-12 or search this site for "MATC".

The table may be included from an extarnal file using the following syntax:

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 Temperature = Variable Coordinate 1
    Real 
      include tprof.dat
    End

-Peter
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Re: transient boundary conditions

Post by annier »

Hi Peter,
It means the file with filename tprof.dat should be in the same directory with SIF file for the convenience.
Yours
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Re: transient boundary conditions

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