[Getdp] External parameters in transient simulation

[Bernhard Kubicek]

I finally managed to solve this problem, and made a Wiki-example from
it, in case somebody else ever needs something similar:
http://geuz.org/getdp/wiki/HeatReservoir
I have to admit the shell script is a bit complex. 

very nice greetings,
 Bernhard

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:17 +0100, Bernhard Kubicek wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> A colleague and me are working on an esoteric kind of simulation. We
> need to solve heat conduction equation with nonlinear diffusion
> coefficient on a 2d rectangular strip. On the left and right boundary
> lines, we need to have heat exchange with an reservoir.
> However, the reservoir's temperature decreases with the integral of all
> energy/temperature in the strip, because it is a closed/adiabatic
> coupled system.
> It should be a transient simulation.
> Therefore it would be nice to have a global scalar quantity that is the
> integral over the temperature in the 2d strip, accessible so I can store
> it as a value in a getdp variable, which then is used the TimeFunction
> boundary values. And updated in a transient simulation.
> 1)Is there a way to do this?
> 
> Currently, I have a "workaround": I start getdp with a couple of
> timesteps, than call a postprocessing which does the PostIntegration and
> outputs the integral to a file. Then using a shell script, a .pro file
> is created with the line
> "IntegralValue=TheIntegral;FinalTime=AFewMoreTimestepsThanBefore;".
> This .pro file is included in the general problem definition.
> Afterwards getdp is started again using -restart to continue to the
> changed final time, while the IntegralValue is used in the Timefunction
> Boundary Conditions.
> However, if for testing purposes, i don't vary the included pro file per
> restart, one would expect that that there should be no difference in the
> results, weather getdp just calculates in one go to the final time, or
> in multiple junks using -restart. 
> However, there are differences of up to 10% in my case and I could not
> find the error yet.
> 2) Could this in principle work?
> 
> 3) Is it possible to output global variable or function values within a
> timeloop to the screen for debugging purposes? 
> 
> Thank you very much,
> and very nice greeting from frozen Vienna,
>  Bernhard Kubicek
> 
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