Re: [sparta-users] [EXTERNAL] Spatially dependent surface temperature for surf_collide

[Roshan M. T. <ros...@be...>]

Oh, cool. That's timely!

Thanks a lot for constantly developing this software.

Roshan

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Roshan Mathew Tom | Ph.D. Candidate
Graduate Student Researcher
Computer Mechanics Laboratory
University of California Berkeley



On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 11:37 AM Moore, Stan <st...@sa...> wrote:

> >To confirm, these features are not available in the 4/23 release
> version, and I'll have to get it directly from GitHub public master.
>
> They are not available in 4/23, but we are releasing a new version today
> (7Mar2024 version, see
> https://github.com/sparta/sparta/releases/tag/7Mar2024) and it will be in
> this new release. We are in the middle of updating the website, will be
> done later today.
>
> Stan
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> *Subject:* Re: [sparta-users] [EXTERNAL] Spatially dependent surface
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> Thanks a lot. Both solutions work for me.
>
> To confirm, these features are not available in the 4/23 release version,
> and I'll have to get it directly from GitHub public master.
>
> Thanks
> Roshan
>
> --
> Roshan Mathew Tom | Ph.D. Candidate
> Graduate Student Researcher
> Computer Mechanics Laboratory
> University of California Berkeley
> Office: 5146 Etcheverry Hall
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 9:19 PM Steve Plimpton <sj...@gm...> wrote:
>
> The input script Stan pointed to allows a static temperature to be defined
> for each surf element by
> including the values in the read_surf file and assigning them to a custom
> per-surf vector.
> The custom vector is the temperature argument to the surf_collide command.
>
> If you want a spatially-dependent function to set the temperature
> (statically or time-dependent), you
> can use a surf-style variable as the temperature arg to the surf_collide
> command.  Surf-style variables
> can include the center point of each surf in their formula (or the current
> timestep).
> See the examples/custom/in.custom.step.temp.variable script for an example.
> Also see the surf_collided temp/freq keyword to set how often the
> surf-style variable is invoked.
> The formula could also include outputs from per-surf computes, e.g. to
> vary the temperature depending
> on the energy flux of particles to each surface element.
>
> Steve
>
>