Discussion Closed This discussion was created more than 6 months ago and has been closed. To start a new discussion with a link back to this one, click here.
Using previously computed solution as input for new simulation.
Posted Apr 17, 2020, 4:11 a.m. EDT Structural & Acoustics, Structural Mechanics Version 5.4 1 Reply
Please login with a confirmed email address before reporting spam
Hello,
I am doing a stationnary study of thermal strain using the solid mechanics module. I want to simulate thermal strain in a system with different material that have been deposited at different temperatures one by one.
For that I would like to do a simulation with the first two material, then use this solution as input for the three-material case, solve it, and so on.
Is that feasible? How can I use a previous solution as inital condition? The 'initial values' condition only allows to put initial constant displacement.
Thanks for your help
Please login with a confirmed email address before reporting spam
Hi Léo,
In Application Libraries you can find an example of exactly this. It is called Thermal Stresses in a Layered Plate (file: layered_plate).
You can also find it here: https://www.comsol.com/model/thermal-stresses-in-a-layered-plate-273
The main idea is to use the Activation feature to activate the layers one by one as they are deposited.
-------------------Henrik Sönnerlind
COMSOL