[keishlaortiz]

Hello!

I'm trying to recycle particles escaped from outlet to inlet. I followed and modified the UDF posted in this thread: Periodic BC in ANSYS DDPM, UDF. In my case, if the particle x-position is greater than 0.20 m and y-position is greater than or equal to -0.42 m, then the particle is close to the outlet and I want to change the position such that is re-injected into the inlet. However, it seems like this approach is not working since the particles get stuck at the outlet. Here is my UDF:

#include "udf.h"

DEFINE_DPM_BC(continue_tracking,p,t,f,f_normal,dim)
{
        //here we want to keep track of the particle that reaches the outlet so we can "recycle" it
	return PATH_ACTIVE;
}

DEFINE_DPM_SCALAR_UPDATE(recycle_particles,c,t,initialize,p)
{
	FILE *fp;

	if (P_POS(p)[1] > 0)
	{
		P_USER_REAL(p,1) = 0.;
	}

	if (P_POS(p)[1] >= -0.42 && P_POS(p)[1] < 0 && P_POS(p)[0] > 0.20 && P_USER_REAL(p,1) == 0.)
	{
		// save particle id and time to a file
        Message("The outlet boundary UDF is being called...\n");
		fp=fopen("recycleparticles.txt", "a"); // x, y, z particle positions [m], particle ID [#] and time [s]
		//fprintf(fp,"%e %e %e %d %e\n",P_POS(p)[0],P_POS(p)[1],P_POS(p)[2],p->part_id,P_TIME(p));
		fprintf(fp,"%d %e\n",p->part_id,P_TIME(p));
		fclose(fp);

		// save the number of times this particle has been recycled


		P_USER_REAL(p,0) = P_USER_REAL(p,0) + 1.;
		P_USER_REAL(p,1) = 1.;

		// send particle to the inlet boundary
                // just need to change y-position
		P_POS(p)[1] = 2.6534e-017;

	}
}

I also attached a zip file containing the workbench file, geometry file and udf code. If anyone can help me with this it would be appreciated.

[bikooo3878]

I'm working on something very similar. It seems to me that your code should be working well. Have you figured what was the issue?