Calculating magnetic energy

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Calculating magnetic energy

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Hello everyone,

I was just wondering how I could go about calculating total magnetic energy. I am doing very simple 2D simulations of many magnets. I see that there are multiple norm values in the solver log file, but I do not think that I am looking for an average. If possible, I would like get a total energy.

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Re: Calculating magnetic energy

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Chapter 58 of the models manual describes doing operations on variables in an additional solver
https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/physic ... Manual.pdf

Solver 3
Exec Solver = After Timestep
Equation = SaveScalars
Procedure = "SaveData" "SaveScalars"
Filename = "fieldstrenght.dat"
Variable 1 = Magnetic Field Strength
Operator 1 = sum
Operator 2 = mean
Operator 3 = max
End
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Re: Calculating magnetic energy

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Thanks so much. I believe that's exactly what I was looking for. It's strange to me that that's included in the models manual and not the solver manual.
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Re: Calculating magnetic energy

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Hi

I believe the CalcFields computes the magnetic energy automatically. You just have to follow the output or have even an empty instance of SaveScalars.

ElmerSolver Manual includes the services of the library that are usable for all PDE modules, Elmer Models Manual describes the features related to modules that are read in on-the-fly. The naming is somewhat confusing as the whole program is ElmerSolver and individual modules are also called Solvers. If we would start today maybe we use different terms.

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Re: Calculating magnetic energy

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kevinarden wrote: 06 Apr 2021, 12:25 Chapter 58 of the models manual describes doing operations on variables in an additional solver
https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/physic ... Manual.pdf

Solver 3
Exec Solver = After Timestep
Equation = SaveScalars
Procedure = "SaveData" "SaveScalars"
Filename = "fieldstrenght.dat"
Variable 1 = Magnetic Field Strength
Operator 1 = sum
Operator 2 = mean
Operator 3 = max
End
Hi, Kevin,
I tried to run these coding in my sif file. However, there was a problem about finding SavaScalars Equation. I got the errors as the following:

Can not find SaveData"savescalars_Init0.
Can not find SaveData"savescalars_Init0.dll.
Can not find .\SaveData"savescalars_Init0.
Can not find .\SaveData"savescalars_Init0.dll.
Can not find C:\Program Files\Elmer 9.0-Release/share/elmersolver/lib\SaveData"savescalars_Init0.
Can not find C:\Program Files\Elmer 9.0-Release/share/elmersolver/lib\SaveData"savescalars_Init0.dll.

I already appended this Equation to Elmer before I started solving the problem, but it still gives me an error. I am very confused now. hopefully I can hear some suggestions from you, Thank you.
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Re: Calculating magnetic energy

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I do not have that issue on linux nor windows. Elmer looks in the current working directory, then the usual installation directory for library files. If you have installed Elmer in a different directory you may have to set the $ELMER_HOME system variable for it to find stuff correctly.
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Re: Calculating magnetic energy

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There are also new windows installers available (4/1) to install the latest version of the code. There is a good youtube video on installing in windows.
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Re: Calculating magnetic energy

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Hi

I don't think these are errors. These are optional slots for doing some initialization. They may be misleading but they are not errors. You get the main "SaveScalars" routine loaded and that is what matters.

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Re: Calculating magnetic energy

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Hi, Kevin,
Thanks. I have solved that issue. But I still get an error saying " Requested variable does not exist: magnetic field strength". I am wondering if this is the correct variable. Do you know how to fix this issue? The sif file is attached.
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Re: Calculating magnetic energy

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You don't have the magdynamicscalc solver to calculate the fields

Equation = "MGDynamicsCalc"
Procedure = "MagnetoDynamics" "MagnetoDynamicsCalcFields"
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