[cwl]

Good day, enginners

If there are two Physics Continua (say, Water and Air) in my simulation - which are related to different Regions (so Continua/Variables are not coupled at all) - is there a way to use Variables (say, "Air.Velocity", "Air.Temperature" etc) from one Physics Continua in Field function that is used in another?

For example - i would like to have something like this [written in pseudo-code]:

$$Air.Velocity[0] < 300.0 ? $Water.Temperature*0.5 : pow($Water.Temperature, 2)*0.01

Any ideas?

[ryancoe]

The only way that I know to do this is to use field functions to define the physics continua parameters. For example, you could create a field function named airVelocity

airVelocity = [1, 0, 0.1]

then define physics continua with that field function.

set initial velocity in Continua1 to '$$airVelocity'

This way you can use airVelocity in other field functions and other continua.

Hope this helps.

[cwl]

thanx a lot for your answer - but unfortunately that won't work in case that variable is not constant :<

[ryancoe]

The variable does not need to be constant. You can set the field function variable (airVelocity in my example above) dynamically (e.g., as a function of time or any monitor value that you like).

Am I not understanding your problem correctly?