Applying conditions to multiple nodes or elements

Hi all,

I'm currently trying to develop a model in Salome Meca where I want to apply a heat flux to a number of elements or to the nodes of these elements, I'd like to know how to do both so I can compare the results ideally.

I've made some progress already on this goal. I was able to select the elements I want in a tet mesh using the following method (I am writing it mainly in case anyone is looking for how to create a group of elements by location using Salome Meca or Code Aster in the future)

1. I knew the locations where I want the heat power to be applied at so I used these locations and the "Find element by point" tool to find the element number at each of my coordinates and wrote down the element numbers
2. I then went to Mesh > Create Group, selected the mesh I wished to make the group in from the Object Browser and then clicked on "Enable Manual edition" followed by "Set Filter" and added a criterion of "Range of IDS" which were "Equal to" the element number I had obtained in Step 1.
3. I then hit Apply and Close to add these elements to my group, although this had to be done one element at a time as only one element would be equal to the element ID I entered for the filter obviously, this makes the process pretty tedious so it is possible that there is a more efficient way of doing this.

So from this method I could create my group and apply my heat flux to the elements of this group. Now I want to refine the application of this heat power by applying a power distribution to the selected elements and the elements which surround each of them. I have the distribution calculated both as a function of distance from a point (which can be the points I used to find the elements in step 1 above) and also I've written a python script which works out the distribution across a sphere discretised into whatever number of points I want.

So what I need now is a way of applying this distribution to my model. For example instead of selecting, say, element 284 and applying a power of 10 Watts I want element 284 to have a power of 10 W but elements 282, 283, 285 and 286 to all have a power of 7 W where these are the elements next to elm 284. Can anyone tell me a way of doing this in Salome Meca please? Is there a field tool of some kind which can be used?

Also/alternatively can anyone tell me is there a way to hide individual elements in Salome Meca? If I could do this I could hide all the elements that I don't want to apply the power to and then select to apply it to all the elements which remain. Selectively hiding elements is something which I have found very useful in other pre-processor packages so is it possible to do this in Salome?

If anyone wants me to give more information let me know, I'd really appreciate any help I can get here.

Cheers!