Implicitsourceterm multiplies scalarsource by the dependent variable.

http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/fipy/documentation/numerical/discret.html#source-term

Kris
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Gillilan <[email protected]>
Sender: <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:48:40 
To: [email protected]<[email protected]>
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Subject: Solved! hints on creating a Source in simple convection diffusion
        problem

Ah ha! 

It seems the solution was to replace "ImplicitSourceTerm(scalarSource)"
with just “scalarSource”.

So, I apparently don’t understand the difference between an implicit and 
explicit source. 

Anyone care to clarify?

Richard

On Jan 23, 2015, at 3:49 PM, Richard Gillilan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Doing simple convection diffusion in a narrow channel: simulating the 
> accumulation of damaged solute in a dilute solution as a result of x-ray 
> exposure. I’m having trouble getting a Source term to work the way I think it 
> should. I want a strip of volume elements in the middle of the channel (the 
> x-ray illuminated volume) to act as a source of “damaged” solute. So any 
> solution that convects into those pixels should have the concentration of 
> damaged material increased at a constant rate. Note vel is simple Poiseuille 
> flow, but set to zero for testing purposes. 
> 
> Can anyone spot any obvious errors? Here’s what I tried:
> 
> <I’m only showing some of the code here for brevity>
> 
> print "volume element size: ",dx,"x",dy
> 
> Lx = dx*nx
> Ly = dy*ny
> 
> mesh = Grid2D(dx=dx, dy=dy, nx=nx, ny=ny)
> 
> print "dimensions of capillary: ",Lx,Ly
> ...
> xc,yx = mesh.cellCenters
> ...
> scalarSource = CellVariable(mesh, value=0.0, rank=0)
> strip = ((xc>Lx/3) & (xc<2*Lx/3))
> scalarSource.setValue([100.0], where=strip) 
> 
> eq = TransientTerm() == 
> (DiffusionTerm(coeff=D)+VanLeerConvectionTerm(coeff=vel))+ImplicitSourceTerm(scalarSource)


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