[RTN3000]

Hey everyone,

I'm looking to create a code to change the type of a boundary condition once.

For example, I'm looking to change a boundary type with known zone ID from whatever it currently is to a velocity inlet, how would I go about doing this?


Background on this, I have a problem which may have 200+ boundary condition locations in which are set as 'walls' during meshing. I'm looking to change these 200+ BCs all at once to their respective ones by either loading a scheme file or using define_execute_on_loading.



Thanks.

[`e`]

Changing boundary conditions must be done via the GUI or TUI. Using a scheme file, the boundary condition could be changed with the TUI command:

/define/boundary-conditions/modify-zones/zone-type

However, if you set a user-defined boundary condition then you could code time dependent conditions (but if the boundary was a velocity inlet then it would have to remain as such).

[RTN3000]

Thanks e for the reply. I was hoping there was a more automated solution.

I believe what I'll end up doing is creating a script to generate either a scheme file or journal file with the zone ids/names, changing the boundaries that fit the certain criteria (most likely just some naming convention) with the TUI command you've stated, then assigning their properties with their respective TUI commands.

I'm not quite sure where to start with scheme programming as it relates to fluent however. Currently I've been using the code below (source) to feed names into my UDF in which I get thread IDs that I use.

(rp-var-define 'jos-thread-id-list () 'list #f) 
(rpsetvar 'jos-thread-id-list ()) 
(for-each (lambda (t) (rpsetvar 'jos-thread-id-list (list-add 
(rpgetvar 'jos-thread-id-list) (thread-id t)))) 
(get-all-threads)) 
(rpgetvar 'jos-thread-id-list) 


(rp-var-define 'jos-thread-name-list () 'list #f) 
(rpsetvar 'jos-thread-name-list ()) 
(for-each (lambda (t) (rpsetvar 'jos-thread-name-list (list-add 
(rpgetvar 'jos-thread-name-list) (thread-name t)))) 
(get-all-threads)) 
(rpgetvar 'jos-thread-name-list)

In C, I'll use the strstr function to easily search for a string, can anyone help me with an equivalent for a scheme?

strstr(RP_Get_List_Ref_String("jos-thread-name-list", j_BC), "channel_inlet")

[`e`]

Unfortunately, I haven't found a simpler way of changing boundary conditions mid-simulation. There's unofficial documentation on Scheme programming with Fluent which might be useful.

How are you determining which boundaries are modified? Could you write these zone IDs to a file during a time step?

[RTN3000]

Nice, thanks for the link, the only other document I've found in regards to fluent Scheme programming has all supporting text in German.

From meshing, I've named the boundaries to some common name, for example "channel_inlet" or "channel_outlet." From this, I've created a lookup table in my UDF of zone IDs which I use basically everywhere.

Also, my case is strictly steady state, so this applying of a new boundary type only happens once during the setup of the problem.

[`e`]

If you know which boundaries are changing beforehand then you could label them with a common prefix, for example "boundarychanges_inlet". The wildcard character can be used with the TUI such that "boundarychanges_*" includes all boundaries that start with "boundarychanges_".

[RTN3000]

Wow having the ability to use wildcards in TUI commands is very convenient! That makes everything a lot easier.