Please post the entire traceback. That one error line is not enough to tell 
what's going on.

On Mar 2, 2016, at 12:50 PM, Gerard Salvatella <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hello! I'm trying to solve a diffusion equation where the coefficient of
> the diffusion term depends on both x and the variable to solve
> (temperature) in the following way:
> D(x,T) = a(x)*T + b(x)
> where a(x) and b(x) are fermi-like functions. My approach was to set
> a(x) and b(x) as CellVariables depending on CellCenters 'x', T being
> also a CellVariable:
> 
> mesh = fp.Grid1D(dx,n)
> x = mesh.cellCenters[0]
> a = CellVariable(mesh=mesh, value=f(x) )
> b = CellVariable(mesh=mesh, value=g(x) )
> T = CellVariable(name="temperature", mesh=mesh, value=T0)
> one = CellVariable(mesh=mesh, value=1.0)
> 
> DiffusionTerm(var=T,coeff=a*T + b*one)
> 
> I put the 'one' variable there to make b a BinOp type since otherwise
> seems incompatible with a*T. But it has not worked either so far. It
> returns an error
> 
> raise TypeError, str(self) + ' and ' + str(other) + ' are incompatible.'
> 
> Any tips on how can the equation be stated would be highly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Gerard
> 
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