# 3.2. Restart a Problem¶

Say we wish to run our simulation further than t=3.0, to see how it develops. To restart a problem, all you need is to use the computed solution as initial conditions in a simiular problem setup.

Restarting the heat equation solved as in A Basic Use Case, can be done really simple with cbcpost. Starting with the python-file in A Basic Use Case, we only have to make a couple of minor changes.

We change the parameters T0 and T to look at the interval $$t \in [3,6]$$:

params.T0 = 3.0
params.T = 6.0


and we replace the initial condition, using the Restart-class:

# Get restart data
restart = Restart(dict(casedir="../Basic/Results/"))
restart_data = restart.get_restart_conditions()

# Initial condition
U = restart_data.values()[0]["Temperature"]


Note that we point Restart to the case directory where the solution is stored. We could also choose to write our restart data to the same directory when setting up the postprocessor:

pp = PostProcessor(dict(casedir="../Basic/Results"))