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Hi everyone,

I have very simple model where copper plate is heated by a pulsed laser (transient study, 2D, see file surfaceplot_1).
Now, I am searching for a way to track the position/depth of my melting and vaporisation temperature over time during the laser pulse.
I would like to have a 1D plot at the defined x-position (e.g. the center of the pulse) where I can see the y-coordinate of my isothermal (T_melt or T_vap) as a function of the time (meaning y = f (T_melt, t) or y = f(T_vap, t)).

I know that I can plot defined isothermal curves in a contour plot and than manually extract the position of the the curve at a corresponding position for each time step which is however very inefficient (see file contourplot_1).

I have been playing around with 1D cuts etc. trying to get what I need, however not very successful so far. I could setup a number of points along y at a certain x-position and the plot the temperature of each point over time the get an estimate of the depth evolution of my defined temperatures. However, this also doesn't really hit the point.

Any ideas/hints would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes
Christian