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Comsol-Matlab interface

Posted May 19, 2010, 4:47 a.m. EDT 1 Reply

Nathalie G.
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Hello everybody

Hope you're all ok :)

I have a question regarding the use of the Comsol-Matlab interface.

I have a very simple 3D model: a beam, fixed on one end and free at the other, made of steel. I would like to export the model to matlab, in order to analyze it with simulink. The problem is whether I export it as a Simulink model, or as a state-space model, I always have an issue with the mass matrix; the error message beeing: mass matrix is zero. I don't really know where the problem comes from, since it's a simple model, and I defined the material, the density ...

Also, I noticed that there's an option to esport the model matrices as sparse, but when you do it you can't use simulink, as it doesn't support sparse matrices. And when you turn them to full matrices, it runs out of memory :(

I don't know if I'm beeing clear with what's bothering me here, but I hope you have some advice for me :) !

Thank you very much in advance, and have a nice day!

1 Reply Last Post Mar 28, 2011, 11:59 a.m. EDT
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Andrew Wang
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Posted: 1 decade ago Mar 28, 2011, 11:59 a.m. EDT
Hi Nathalie,

I've used the COMSOL API and I also have this problem (Mass matrix being empty). How did you define your output? I defined mine using a variable and an integration coupling variable since point probes don't seem to output a C matrix. Also, have you tried calculating the solution using the state space matrices and then comparing that answer to comsol? I'm unsure of my method since I'm getting a different answer from the state space matrices compared to COMSOL.

Thanks,
Andrew Wang
Hi Nathalie, I've used the COMSOL API and I also have this problem (Mass matrix being empty). How did you define your output? I defined mine using a variable and an integration coupling variable since point probes don't seem to output a C matrix. Also, have you tried calculating the solution using the state space matrices and then comparing that answer to comsol? I'm unsure of my method since I'm getting a different answer from the state space matrices compared to COMSOL. Thanks, Andrew Wang

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