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what's the meaning of "shadowed" and "not applicable" in Boundaries Setting

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what's the meaning of "shadowed" and "not applicable" in Boundaries Setting

2 Replies Last Post 9 nov 2010, 01:38 GMT-5

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Posted: 1 decade ago 8 nov 2010, 16:00 GMT-5
means Comsol will neglect them, disabled. Something under is telling what comsol should do.

Do A
Do B

comsol will say A is shadowed. B will run.


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Comsol 4.0a
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means Comsol will neglect them, disabled. Something under is telling what comsol should do. Do A Do B comsol will say A is shadowed. B will run. -- Comsol 4.0a Ubuntu 10.04.1

Ivar KJELBERG COMSOL Multiphysics(r) fan, retired, former "Senior Expert" at CSEM SA (CH)

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Posted: 1 decade ago 9 nov 2010, 01:38 GMT-5
Hi

this has to do with the "contributive" or "exclusive" nodes of your physics. Some physics override what was defined previously (read the node tree from top to bottom, and imagine its processed this way) and some node add up. You can add two body loads on the same entity (in structural) and these will add up independently (both are considered together), but if you define your main physical properties first to all entities, and then redefine one with some other i.e. material properties, the selection in the first one will be shadowed or overridden depending on the case. Check your doc.
Ths is rather mportant to understand, else you will not get what you believe you have. The icons are slightly different, exclusive nods have a double green-blue red-orange triangle pair. See the 4.1 MPH user guide, the "The Physics Interface Feature Nodes" section p 292 in my version

This allows you to use the enable/disable feature to switch from one case to another. Unfortunately these enable/disable are not yet linked to the solvers (I have heard it's in preparation ;)

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Ivar
Hi this has to do with the "contributive" or "exclusive" nodes of your physics. Some physics override what was defined previously (read the node tree from top to bottom, and imagine its processed this way) and some node add up. You can add two body loads on the same entity (in structural) and these will add up independently (both are considered together), but if you define your main physical properties first to all entities, and then redefine one with some other i.e. material properties, the selection in the first one will be shadowed or overridden depending on the case. Check your doc. Ths is rather mportant to understand, else you will not get what you believe you have. The icons are slightly different, exclusive nods have a double green-blue red-orange triangle pair. See the 4.1 MPH user guide, the "The Physics Interface Feature Nodes" section p 292 in my version This allows you to use the enable/disable feature to switch from one case to another. Unfortunately these enable/disable are not yet linked to the solvers (I have heard it's in preparation ;) -- Good luck Ivar

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