[tjmartian]

Currently I am looping over all the cells in my 2-D geometry to find u and v at each cell; however, at the corners and boundaries where I am getting recirculation, the math isn't coming out correctly using the u and v values taken from Fluent. I would assume that the velocity at the centroid is just interpolated from the face velocities so I am trying to find a way to use the velocities at the faces instead; is there a way to do this? I tried writing this quick code to test this but I am getting a Fluent access error when I try to run it:

#include"udf.h"
#include"metric.h"
#include"stdio.h"
#include"math.h"
#include"stdlib.h"
#include"mem.h"


DEFINE_ADJUST(velocity_profile_face,d)
{

Thread *t;
face_t f;

real cent[2];
double centr_x, centr_y;
double vel_x, vel_y;

thread_loop_f(t,d)
{
begin_f_loop(f,t)
{
F_CENTROID(cent,f,t);

centr_x = cent[0];
centr_y = cent[1];
vel_x = F_U(f,t);
vel_y = F_U(f,t);

printf("%f, %f\n", vel_x, vel_y);
}
end_f_loop(f,t)
}
}

After reading some other threads I saw that this only works for boundaries so I may not be able to do it this way. Is there a way I can get this to work? If not are there any other macros that will help me do what I want? If not I may need to play around with the math and see if I can get it to work better instead. Thanks for your help.

[gearboy]

F_U, F_V are only valid for boundary.

For those face in the domain, you can use the averaged value of F_C0 and F_C1.

Originally Posted by tjmartian

Currently I am looping over all the cells in my 2-D geometry to find u and v at each cell; however, at the corners and boundaries where I am getting recirculation, the math isn't coming out correctly using the u and v values taken from Fluent. I would assume that the velocity at the centroid is just interpolated from the face velocities so I am trying to find a way to use the velocities at the faces instead; is there a way to do this? I tried writing this quick code to test this but I am getting a Fluent access error when I try to run it:

#include"udf.h"
#include"metric.h"
#include"stdio.h"
#include"math.h"
#include"stdlib.h"
#include"mem.h"


DEFINE_ADJUST(velocity_profile_face,d)
{

Thread *t;
face_t f;

real cent[2];
double centr_x, centr_y;
double vel_x, vel_y;

thread_loop_f(t,d)
{
begin_f_loop(f,t)
{
F_CENTROID(cent,f,t);

centr_x = cent[0];
centr_y = cent[1];
vel_x = F_U(f,t);
vel_y = F_U(f,t);

printf("%f, %f\n", vel_x, vel_y);
}
end_f_loop(f,t)
}
}

After reading some other threads I saw that this only works for boundaries so I may not be able to do it this way. Is there a way I can get this to work? If not are there any other macros that will help me do what I want? If not I may need to play around with the math and see if I can get it to work better instead. Thanks for your help.

[tjmartian]

Thank you, I hadn't seen those macros before. I think I can get what I need from there.