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novyno July 13, 2009 10:35

Update boundary condition only after several iteration
 
Hi

I have to implement a boundary condition of type fixedGradient. The gradient depends from the field value. To implement the boundary condition I have modified the updateCoeff() funcion. Unfortunately in this way the gradient changes in every iteration (becouse in every iteration the updateCoeff() function is called) and the solution became instable.

Is there some way to update the boundary condition value only after several iterations and not every iteration?

Thanks...

Schag July 16, 2009 11:04

Hi,

I never tried it but the first solution that comes to my mind is to use a counter.
For example, if you want to change every 10 iterations, just make count=count+1 for each one, and when count=10 do (updateCoeffs() & count=0)

Sorry if it seems stupid and I'm far away from the point, I'm a beginner trying to contribute as I can.

Regards

Julien

novyno July 16, 2009 17:56

Thanks... I have tried this solution yet, but the problem is that updateCoeff() is called every iteration and I don't know how I can block it!

Thanks for you reply...


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