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Old   February 19, 2013, 11:20
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Hi,
Im trying to use field functions to refine my mesh, but my conditional expression for my refinement table is written incorectly. I want my mesh to be finer in the areas where the velocity is over 0.4m/s and also in the areas where the temperature is over 293K. The two expressions shown below work fine individually but i need to combine the two to generate the one mesh refinement table...any ideas?

($RelativeVelocityMagnitude > 0.04) ? 0.038 : 0.08
($Temperature > 293) ? 0.038 : 0.08

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Try using the and '&&' logical operator?
Maybe this?
(($RelativeVelocityMagnitude > 0.04) && ($Temperature > 293)) ? 0.038 : 0.08
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Old   February 20, 2013, 10:36
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Thanks for the reply. I used the logical operator '&&' but this only refines the mesh in the areas where both the velocity is > 0.4 and the temperature is > 293. I need to refine the mesh in the areas where either of these conditions are met.
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Then you can use the OR logical operator '||' since if either of these requirement are met, then it will refine the mesh.
So it should be
(($RelativeVelocityMagnitude > 0.04) || ($Temperature > 293)) ? 0.038 : 0.08
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Old   February 21, 2013, 10:44
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It worked perfectly, thanks very much.
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