On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Jonathan Guyer <gu...@nist.gov> wrote: > > > On Jul 12, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Marc Saudreau wrote: > >> Whatever the case, when I try to impose a fixed value, the temperature of >> faces is not uniform. I guess I should have the same value on all faces I >> fixed the temperature ! See the attached jpg file when temperature is fixed >> on the lateral surface. > > The visualization is of the temperature of the cell centers and so I would > expect some fluctuations as the cell centers don't all lie at the same > radius. Nonetheless, you seem to have variations of a degree or more on the > cells bordering the exterior, which does seem a bit much. Maybe Wheeler knows > if it would be feasible/beneficial to switch to the DiffusionTerm with > corrections once a converged solution is obtained with > DiffusionTermNoCorrection.
Mixing DiffusionTermNoCorrection and DiffusionTerm won't help, but I a not sure that there is a problem with the solution anyway. -- Daniel Wheeler
