Hi Ian,

Thank you very much for the example and pointing out the additional
reference. Those are very useful informations. This approach seems
intuitive and easy to incorporate into the code. I will try to incorporate
it into my own code.  Thanks again.

Best,

Zhekai

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Campbell, Ian <i.campbel...@imperial.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Zhekai,
>
>
>
> There is.
>
>
>
> Try the following, where as you suggest, the interpolated value at the
> right-most face of mesh_1 is used. That (outward flowing) flux value is
> then copied to the inlet boundary condition (Neumann/flux) for mesh_2. A
> diffusion equation with a different coefficient for your solution variable
> phi is defined on the 2nd mesh – this should work if you change the
> equation further. Both meshes are non-uniform and of unit length.
>
>
>
> I don’t know from your question what type or magnitude boundary conditions
> you’re interested in on the other faces, but nonetheless, you can see in
> the figures produced from the code below that the outlet flux on the
> right-most face of mesh_1 is equal to the inlet flux on the left-most face
> of mesh_2. There’s likely a cleaner way to do this, by updating the value
> of the boundary condition for mesh_2 rather than re-defining it, but this
> is a start.
>
>
>
> An additional reference for you, here is Dr. Guyer’s suitably-named Gist:
> https://gist.github.com/guyer/bb199559c00f6047d466daa18554d83d
>
>
>
> Let us know if that works for you.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> -          Ian
>
>
>
> phi_1_initial, phi_2_initial = 0.0, 0.0
>
> D1, D2 = 1.5, 1.75
>
> inlet_BC_value_init = 2.0
>
>
>
> dx_1 = [0.03806023, 0.10838638, 0.16221167, 0.19134172, 0.19134172,
> 0.16221167, 0.10838638, 0.03806023]
>
> dx_2 = [0.03806023, 0.10838638, 0.16221167, 0.19134172, 0.19134172,
> 0.16221167, 0.10838638, 0.03806023]
>
>
>
> mesh_1 = Grid1D(dx=dx_1, Lx=1.0)
>
> mesh_2 = Grid1D(dx=dx_2, Lx=1.0)
>
>
>
> phi_1 = CellVariable(mesh_1, value=phi_1_initial)
>
> phi_2 = CellVariable(mesh_2, value=phi_2_initial)
>
>
>
> eq_1 = TransientTerm() == ExplicitDiffusionTerm(coeff=D1)
>
> eq_2 = TransientTerm() == ExplicitDiffusionTerm(coeff=D2)
>
>
>
> # Boundary Conditions
>
> phi_1.faceGrad.constrain(0.5, where=mesh_1.facesLeft)
>
> phi_1.constrain(1.0, where=mesh_1.facesRight)
>
> phi_2.faceGrad.constrain(inlet_BC_value_init, where=mesh_2.facesLeft)
>
> phi_2.faceGrad.constrain(-0.5, where=mesh_2.facesRight)
>
>
>
> timeStepDuration = 0.9 * min(dx_1)**2 / (2 * max(D1, D2))
>
> steps = 100
>
> viewer = Viewer(vars=(phi_1, phi_2))
>
>
>
> for step in range(steps):
>
>     eq_1.solve(var=phi_1, dt = timeStepDuration)
>
>     inlet_BC_value = phi_1.faceValue[mesh_2.faceCenters == 1.0]         #
> Acquire the data
>
>     phi_2.faceGrad.constrain(inlet_BC_value, where=mesh_2.facesLeft)    #
> Apply that data on the 2nd mesh
>
>     eq_2.solve(var=phi_2, dt = timeStepDuration)
>
>     viewer.plot()
>
>
>
> *From:* fipy-boun...@nist.gov [mailto:fipy-boun...@nist.gov] *On Behalf
> Of *Zhekai Deng
> *Sent:* 04 October 2016 03:29
> *To:* fipy@nist.gov
> *Subject:* how to set up data transfer between two adjacent nonuniform
> meshs
>
>
>
> Hello All,
>
>
>
> I wonder is there any way to allow the data share on the two nonuniform
> mesh's interface ? To explain this, let's say I have two meshes, mesh_1 and
> mesh_2. Different equations govern the mesh_1 and mesh_2, and solution
> variable on both meshes is phi.  I would like the outlet (on the right
> face) on mesh_1 served as inlet(on the left face) on mesh_2.
>
>
>
> I tired to concatenate two mesh. If they are uniform, this works fine.
> However, if two does not share the exact the same face (for example, one is
> uniform, and another is nonuniform), there seems to be problem. .
>
>
>
> Thus, I wonder is there any way to "interpolate" the phi.facevalue on
> mesh_1 outlet face, and apply this interpolation value into the inlet of
> mesh_2?
>
>
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Zhekai
>
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