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Problem of using femtime() in COMSOL 3.5a

Posted Dec 5, 2013, 3:15 p.m. EST Interfacing, Studies & Solvers Version 3.5a 0 Replies

Zhangxian Deng
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Hello all,

I use femtime() in matlab to solve a dynamic FE problem as follow:

fem.sol = femtime(fem,'Tlist',tspan);
where tspan is an equally distributed time list. tspan = [t0,t1,t2,...tn].

Now, I am trying to break this long time list into a for-loop

for ii = 1:length(tspan)
u0 = fem.sol.u(:,end);
u_dot0 = fem.sol.u(:,end);
fem_temp = fem;
fem_temp.sol = femsol({u0 u_do0},'tlist',tspan(ii-1));
fem_temp = femtime(fem_temp,'init',u0,[tspan(ii-1) tspan(ii)]);
fem.sol = femsol({[fem.sol.u fem_temp.sol.u(:,end)] [fem.sol.ut fem_temp.sol.ut(:,end)},'tlist',[fem.time.tlist tspan(ii)]);
end

However, the for-loop is not equivalent to the original command, because I get totally different results for the same input.

Is it the correct to add initial conditions like this? How to add initial velocity to femtime()?

Thanks

Dan
0 Replies Last Post Dec 5, 2013, 3:15 p.m. EST
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