[rw511]

Hi all,

I'm trying to access/calculate the total flow time of a simulation. For something that seems so simple, I'm struggling! I'm well aware of the common unsteady macros but can't calculate the total run time with these. I thought a simple:

var1 = CURRENT_TIMESTEP;
var2 = N_TIME;
totalTime = var1*var2;

would suffice, but then realised N_TIME returns the number of elapsed time-steps not the total prescribed number.

I would have thought that a total flow time of a simulation is already defined, but if it is, it appears well hidden to me!

In case you're wanting to now more on why I need this, I am coupling Fluent with a DEM code and need to input the total (expected) flow time to part of the coupling code, to prevent some issues I've been having. I can manually specify the total flow time and all works fine, so now I just need a general method of obtaining the total flow time.

Thanks,

Richard