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March 11, 2010 5:32pm UTC

Saving data at prescribed time points

Hello,

I am planning to run a time-dependent simulation using the multi-physics module and was wondering if there is a way to save the data file only during the last time step of the simulation.

When I ran the simulation for 100 seconds after choosing free time step option, comsol saved the solution at so many different time points starting from 0 to 100 sec. I now have a comsol file that has solution data saved at atleast 10-20 time points within each second which resulted in a huge data file (~ 7 GB). If I increase the mesh size, then comsol is not even progressing until the end because the file exceeded the storage limit size in the /tmp directory.

I only want to save the solution let's say during the last time step only (i.e. from 99 sec - 100 sec) but want the solution to progress from 0 sec - 100 sec.

How can I define this setting?

Thanks.

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March 11, 2010 11:37pm UTC in response to Danial Tz

Re: Saving data at prescribed time points

Does this mean that the data will be saved at the end of each second until the total time reaches from 0 to 99 sec and then the data starts saving at increments of 0.001 seconds from 99 to 100 sec?

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March 12, 2010 12:13pm UTC in response to Danial Tz

Re: Saving data at prescribed time points

Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.

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