| Author | Message | ||
     Dr. Ronald W. Satz (transpower) New member Username: transpower Post Number: 1 Registered: 12-2008 |
I've gone through the Help topics in the program and also searched this forum, but I'm still unclear how to input a table of material values as a function of temperature. For example, thermal conductivity and electrical resistivity vary as a function of temperature. Sometimes it's possible to input a polynomial approximation, and sometimes all that's available is a table of data. So: how is this done in FlexPDE? | ||
| Marek Nelson (mgnelson) Moderator Username: mgnelson Post Number: 91 Registered: 07-2007 |
See "TABLE Input function" and "TABLE File format" in the Help index. There are also a handful of examples in the "Samples | Misc | Import-Export" folder. Your table file will look something like : temp 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 data 1 2 3 4 5 6 and your material property definition in the script would be : Mp = table('filename') This will look up a value for Mp based on the value of temp at any given cell. You can rename the coordinates of the table on input if needed, e.g. table('filename',newvarname). | ||
| Dr. Ronald W. Satz (transpower) New member Username: transpower Post Number: 2 Registered: 12-2008 |
Thanks, now it's very clear! |