Thank you very much for your help! I fixed the sizes and everything seems to be working now! Kind regards, J.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Jonathan Guyer <gu...@nist.gov> wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2013, at 2:30 PM, John Assael wrote: > > > Well, the properties are correct. > > I am simulating a real experiment where I have a tantalum wire inside > toluene with this heat input and what we observe is 3 degrees temp rise on > the surface of the wire in 1second. > > Why cant I see it with this code? > > Certainly one issue is that you're only simulating 20 ms. > > Beyond that, for the parameters you gave, you have a thermal diffusivity > of 3.86e-5 m**2/s in the toluene, giving a diffusion length of about 6 mm > in 1 s. You've declared your wire to have a radius of 50 m. It is not > surprise that you don't see anything. > _______________________________________________ > fipy mailing list > fipy@nist.gov > http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/fipy > [ NIST internal ONLY: https://email.nist.gov/mailman/listinfo/fipy ] > -- ..:: ic3man.gr ::.. software | design | development _/_/_/ email: iass...@gmail.com _/_/_/ www : http://www.ic3man.gr ------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail and any attachments are confidential. You may not copy or disseminate any information contained in them to anyone other than the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message immediately. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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