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[Eduardo Miranda]

Hello everybody!

 Recently i've research on how to auto stop a simulation when a specific value is reached and didn't find any easy way to do that. Some UDFs options were presented but seem too complicated.

 I found a work around using named expressions, Report definitions and Convergence conditions that goes:

1° Set a Report definition of the region you want to monitor (in my case is the copper surface temperature)

 

2° Set a Named expression to output a constant value when the target value is reached and the original value if not. This is the work around to use in the 4° step convergence condition.

-     Expression used: IF((1355[K]-{copper-surface})>0[K],{copper-surface},1355[K])

(The constant value of 1355 I used was the desired value to don't mess with the graph)

 

3° Set a Expression Report Definition using 'new -> expression' with the named Named Expression set in 2° step

4° Set a Convergence Condition using the Named Expression of step 3° in Report Definition and a stop criteria of 0,001 or less

 

That's it! Hope to be useful for someone else! :D
I couldn't upload prints to help the visualization :/
Any doubts I will be glad to answer!

[Rob]

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