We want to model a petridish of bacteria in a liquid medium. So the cells
comsume some substances and produce others. After some time cells in
regions with good food supply are going to split. So new cells are set on
the dish and we carry on with the calculation using the final values of the
last step as initial values of the next.

In Comsol we did not find any documentation treating this scenario. Using
old values to proceed with a calculation seems not to work when you change
the geometry in the mean time. Does this work with FiPy? To me it seems
possible (after playing with the mesh20x20 example) to change single points
in a cell variable. That would be good news for us.

(Furthermore the communication with the Comsol server from Matlab is quite
hard to understand and debug. Fipy is much better in this respact.
Nonetheless, the Comsol Desktop is better than Comsol's Matlab interface.)

Thank you!



2013/9/23 Guyer, Jonathan E. Dr. <[email protected]>

> On Sep 23, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Damian Kösters <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I have got a problem I can't solve using COMSOL+Livelink to Matlab.
> http://www.comsol.com/community/forums/general/thread/39531/
> >
> > I just need diffusion calculation and reactions with the substances.
> >
> > Would you consider this solvable with Fipy?
>
> Can you describe mathematically what you're trying to do and what's not
> working with COMSOL? FiPy can certainly solve reaction-diffusion problems.
> I would think COMSOL could, too.
>
> I don't have any practical experience with COMSOL to follow your problem
> definition.
>
>
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