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read initial conditions for laminar flow problem from external file.
Posted 16.06.2016, 14:00 GMT-4 Studies & Solvers Version 5.2 4 Replies
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Hello,
First of all, I like to apologize if this is a fundamental question but I cannot find an answer to it and I am new to Comsol.
I am running a 2D laminar flow problem and have to integrate over very long times.
I know that I can add solvers to use the solution of another solver as initial condition to continue the simulation.
My problem is that the data files are getting insanely huge and the processing time is over all measures (50GB!)
With my old FEM program, I just saved the last time step of an simulation in an external file (=100kB or so) and started the new simulation with this file as initial condition. So I had multiple files of acceptable size with reasonable processing time.
My question: How can I save the last time step in an external data file and use it as initial condition for another simulation with the same physics and same mesh.
Thanks for the help,
Dominik
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8 years ago
A 50GB file strongly suggests you are asking the software to store data at intermediary time steps that you will never need. Time steps have been discussed in the Discussion Forum before; you may also want to review the section of the Reference Manual for COMSOL Multiphysics version 5.2 dealing with the time-dependent solver, page 990 and following.
You do not need to save your results in one file only to re-import them into another file. Setting the results of one study as the start condition for another is another topic that has been discussed before in the Discussion Forum; or you can read up on "Initial Values of Variables Solved For" in the documentation.
Best,
Jeff
You do not need to save your results in one file only to re-import them into another file. Setting the results of one study as the start condition for another is another topic that has been discussed before in the Discussion Forum; or you can read up on "Initial Values of Variables Solved For" in the documentation.
Best,
Jeff
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8 years ago
Thanks for the reply.
Actually I need all these time steps since it is an oscillating phenomena which amplifies over time. If I don't store the intermediate solutions my FFT gives me wrong values.
I just want to save one time step in a file and use this as initial condition.
It would be nice if you can answer a little bit more specific to my question. I searched the forum and could not find an answer to my question
Or if you happen to know another possibility to run long time-dependent studies with less single file data storage that would be appreciated.
Dominik
Actually I need all these time steps since it is an oscillating phenomena which amplifies over time. If I don't store the intermediate solutions my FFT gives me wrong values.
I just want to save one time step in a file and use this as initial condition.
It would be nice if you can answer a little bit more specific to my question. I searched the forum and could not find an answer to my question
Or if you happen to know another possibility to run long time-dependent studies with less single file data storage that would be appreciated.
Dominik
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Posted:
8 years ago
Hi Dominik,
OK, I think I understand what you want to do better now. If I follow you, you need two files: one with many time steps so you can perform an FFT as a post processing step on these, and one with just the last time step to use as the starting values for another time-dependent analysis.
In that case, you could, after solving the first time-dependent problem and saving under a new file name, add a "straw" physics and use it to store a copy of the values at the final time-step in a new and much smaller data set. Once that's done, you delete the original solution data set, reducing the file size greatly.
If I misunderstood or you need further help, please contact COMSOL support: support@comsol.com .
Best regards,
Jeff
PS: For completeness sake, and in case someone some day lands on this thread: it is quite possible to export data into a file and to read data from a file into a model (If you are interested in that, look up "Interpolation Function" in the Discussion Forum or the documentation), it's just that it's not the best approach in Dominik's case.
OK, I think I understand what you want to do better now. If I follow you, you need two files: one with many time steps so you can perform an FFT as a post processing step on these, and one with just the last time step to use as the starting values for another time-dependent analysis.
In that case, you could, after solving the first time-dependent problem and saving under a new file name, add a "straw" physics and use it to store a copy of the values at the final time-step in a new and much smaller data set. Once that's done, you delete the original solution data set, reducing the file size greatly.
If I misunderstood or you need further help, please contact COMSOL support: support@comsol.com .
Best regards,
Jeff
PS: For completeness sake, and in case someone some day lands on this thread: it is quite possible to export data into a file and to read data from a file into a model (If you are interested in that, look up "Interpolation Function" in the Discussion Forum or the documentation), it's just that it's not the best approach in Dominik's case.
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8 years ago
Yes,
this seems like a possibility.
Thanks
Dominik
this seems like a possibility.
Thanks
Dominik