Hi Bernt-Ola!
bosman wrote:
Hi!
I got a question how to go about setting up a coupled Thermal- Electrical problem, where the heating comes from the Joule heating of a electrically conductive part. The properties are temperature dependent. Is there some similar example?
So far I have done only some preliminary tests with a piezo-electric material - see input/piezo.py for an example of computing the steady periodic response of the medium, assuming a synchronous harmonic excitation of a single frequency. There is a coupling of elastic displacements and the electric field there, and IMO the temperature dependence could be added easily too.
There are no Maxwell equations examples as the edge elements are not implemented (yet). But I am not an expert in electrical problems, so if you show me the exact PDEs you need to solve I may tell you more (amount of work necessary to implement it etc.). I am definitely interested in being able to solve thermal-electric problems with the code.
PS! Robert, We met at EuroScipy and I only now got around to join the list.
Better now than never! EuroScipy was really cool, meeting so many great people with common interests. I have lots of photos from Leipzig, have to put them somewhere on-line.
Best regards, r.