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Hi

If I understand you, you have one (or several the same) boundary over which you integrate the force density to get a total force (or pressure, depends on your formula), well this is, with a parametric sweep calcualted for each step, so if you set the parameter value in teh postprocessing global tab to any value you get the results for that specific value,, if you do a boundary integration on the solution, you can either use the "apply" to get the value of the currently selected parameter step (see also the with() operator, or the at() for time series) or you hit the "plot" button and you get a graph your foce versus the paramete values. You might then dump the plot as an ascii file, or you use matlab to continue your data treatment

Hope this helps on the way
have fun comsoling
Ivar

Hey Ivar,

First of all, thank you very much for taking the time to respond - it is very much appreciated!

I see in the postprocessing menu the option to plot across multiple solutions, but there is only one solution available, despite that I have run the parametric solver. How do I get COMSOL to "see" the other solutions I have solved for?

Also, I need to only plot the force/area vs. parameter step for a very specific set of boundaries (not an integration of the whole solution). I don't see where I would select which specific boundaries I want is the "Plot Parameters" dialogue box, or the "Global Variables Plot" dialogue box. And while I see the option to select specific boundaries in the "Boundary Integration" box, there is not an option to plot is across multiple solutions (it can only be output a value for the current solution).

Thank you!

Gar

UPDATE:

I had been using 'parametric sweep' instead of going into solver parameters (F11). Now, I have been able to store all the different solutions and access them from the Postprocessing>Boundary Integration dialogue. I have also been able to plot them and export the data for further processing. Problem solved! I'll update further if I run into any more issues...

Thank you very much!

Cheers,
Gar

Hi

indeed, when you change your application mode parameters use rater the "physics - Properties - analysis type" to change from static to parametric or to eigenfrequency

In the "solve - solver parameters" you have 2 places to adapt, the application mode (top and you might have several and not all are wanted in say parametric) and the solver: also to be set (separately in this view) to parametric.

This is confusing when you have 1 physics, but rhter logical when you have several application modes = physics running

Have fun Comsoling
Ivar

Hello Ivar,

I am trying to run an analysis entirely using the matlab interface. I want to plot reaction force (RFZ_smaxi) on a boundary in my model against the parameter values. (I am using a parameter sweep).

The syntax "postsum" only gives the sum for all the solution numbers.
I want to be able to plot it like it is possible from the GUI.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Aseem

hi
can i integrate the 2 parameters at a time