where can i find discretization section in comsol 5.3

Where can i find discretization section in comsol 5.3 manual#

I’m not sure if I understand your question. There could be a difference depending on how you build your model and studies. Otherwise, in most cases the temperatures from nitf and ht are the same and you can rely on the automatic seetings.

The temperature from nitf is not available for solids and fluid1, because there we don’t solve for Nonisothermal flow.

Where can i find discretization section in comsol 5.3 manual#

The temperature difference determines the Rayleigh number which again is used to estimate the convective heat flux by Nusselt number correlations (check the manual for more details).Ībout your second question (I refer to the version 5.3 model from the gallery): Otherwise a user-defined temperature difference can be a guess or maybe estimated from similar problems. If I open the model from the gallery the Temperature difference for Equivalent conductivity is set to “Automatic”.

I’m not sure to which version of the model you refer. Of course, the convection in the air affects this flux, because heat and concentration is carried away and this affects the saturation concentration. But since the velocity is zero at the ware surface (no-slip) wall boundary condition the flux is by diffusion. This is the “Compute boundary fluxes” check box in the Interface settings “Discretization” section. Some interfaces have this active by default. Often this difference is small, but especially in multiphysics problems you should use this approach. With the Lagrange multiplier you add additional equations for the flux on this boundary, which answer the question which flux must be applied to get the concentration c=c0. So using the concentration gardient is more an approximate flux since you calculate this gradient with the solution for c inside the domain. Now, you only know the concentration at the boundary, but not the flux. In the equation COMSOL solves (weak form), the Dirichlet boundary condition vanishes, but c=c0 holds of course. At the surface you have a fixed concentration (Dirichlet boundary condition). I’m not a mathematician, so I explain it with my own words.

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