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Counting particles by inlet; Particle tracing in laminar flow
Posted Mar 17, 2016, 11:24 a.m. EDT Fluid & Heat, Results & Visualization Version 4.4 2 Replies
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I'm simulating a simple 4-way intersection using the laminar flow module. Two streets are inflows and two are outflows. Thereafter I'm adding particles to each input flow with the particle tracing for fluid flow module to trace how many of the particles coming from inflow 1 ends up in outflow 1 and 2 respectively, and vice versa for inflow 2.
My problem is that I can only count the total number of particles in each outflow and I can't find a way to distinguish were each particle is coming form.
I would really like to do this without exporting to MatLab or similar since I plan on doing a semi-large parametric sweep over different intersection geometries and I don't want to fiddle around with MatLab scripts, counting particle IDs, for each case.
Thanks for any help!
Sincerely Linus Olofsson
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It appears that your problem could be solved using the Particle Counter feature introduced in V5.2. I would recommend updating to that version.
Dan
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I will see what possibilities I have of upgrading the Comsol software I'm using, as I'm using a student licence at my University. I will deal with it now that I know of a solution!