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Temperature dependent parameter in global material

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Hi,

I used to have a custom material, defined within the component's materials (i.e. like any material in COMSOL before version 5), with a temperature dependent coefficient of thermal expansion. To do so, I defined a function CTE_B270 inside the Basic property group (see Picture 1), and set the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material to CTE_B270(T).

Now, I wanted to exploit the new switches introduced with COMSOL 5, so I wanted to move the same material in the Global -> Materials group. However, if I simply drag the same material to the new folder, the value of coefficient of thermal expansion, CTE_B270(T), becomes orange and I get an error "Unknown variable T". I tried to move the function from inside the material to the Global functions, but nothing changes.

How should I declare or call the function in order to correctly pass the temperature parameter to it?

Best regards,

Mikhail


0 Replies Last Post 17.12.2014, 07:07 GMT-5
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