[saisanthoshm88]

Could some one please explain the difference between the solver macros CURRENT_TIME and CURRENT_TIMESTEP in Fluent.

I'd appreciate an explanation with a short example

[Amir]

CURRENT_TIME is the current physical time and CURRENT_TIMESTEP is the current numerical used time step. (In some algorithms, the floating time step may use)
e.g., for a case with fixed time step of 1 sec, after 10 time step we have:
CURRENT_TIME=10 sec
CURRENT_TIMESTEP=1 sec

Bests,

[saisanthoshm88]

Thanks for the reply Amir. I've a question on writing a udf that involves an interpolation

For instance i have the following case where the inlet pressure varies with times as follows:

Time [sec] - 0 0.2 0.3
Pressure [Pa] - 0 10 0

so the udf should now interpolate for the values of pressure in the intervals [0,0.2] and [0.2,0.3] in this case.

Here it is only a few points so it may be easier to just extract the interpolation functions easily and frame the udf but is there a better way of doing this when the data is much.

[Amir]

yes, there is. You can use a profile instead of UDF. (refer to the manual-> transient profiles)

Bests,