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COMSOL Blog Search Blog  Modeling a Periodic Heat Load Walter Frei | February 16, 2015 One of the more c ommon q uestions we a re asked is about the modeling of periodic, or pulsed, heat loads. T hat is, a heat load that turns on and of f repeatedly at know n times. Modeling s uch a s ituatio n accurately and eff icient ly in COMSOL Multiphysics is q uite easy to do with the Events i nterfac e. The techniques we will i ntroduce are applicable to many classes of t ime-dependent simulations in whic h you have changes in loads t hat occ ur at known ti mes. A Brief Introducon to Time-Dependent Simulaons First, let ’s take a (very) brief conc eptual look at the i mplicit time-stepping algorithms used when you are solving a time-dependent problem in COMSOL Multiphys ics. These algo rithms choose a time step based upon a user-specified tolerance. While this allow s the software to take very large time st eps when there are gradual variations in the solution, the drawback is that us ing too loose of a t olerance can skip over certain transient events. To underst and this, cons ider the ordi nary different ial eq uation: where the forcing function is a squa re unit pulse starti ng at and ending at . Given an initia l condition, , we ca n solve this problem for any length of t ime, either ana lytically or numerica lly. Here is the ana lytic solutio n for : In t he above plot , we ca n observe the exponential decay a nd rise as the forci ng function is zero or one. Let’s now look at t he numerical solutio n to this pro blem fo r two different user-specified to leranc es: The numeric solut ion (re d dots) is shown for a relative tolerance of 0. 2 and 0.01 and is compared