[ksgr]

Hello all!

I have created a new material for injection of liquid droplets. In my case I want to have different properties for diesel fuel as I don't want to use the values provided by Fluent. I have written some UDF's for different liquid properties (density, Cp, latent heat, vapor pressure) which are required by Fluent. I am able to sccuessfully hook these UDF's to Fluent. When I go to injections in DPM settings, I select the newly defined material. But when I select it and say "OK", I get a segmentation fault error message. I have been pondering over this issue for hours and I am unable to figure out what is the error since the error message is so generic.

EDIT: For completeness, following is one of the UDF which I used in Fluent:
#include "udf.h"
#include "stdio.h"
#include "stdlib.h"
#include "math.h"

DEFINE_DPM_PROPERTY(particle_spheat,c,t,p,T)
{
double tgiven = C_T(c,t);
int i, j;
FILE * fp;
static const int maxno = 726;
double temparr[726],rhoarr[726],cpliqarr[726],pvaparr[726],hevaparr[726];
double intpart_temp,frac;
double cpliqcalc,tempup,templow, tcrit=725.9;
fp = fopen("liq_prop.txt", "r");
for(i=0;i<maxno;i++)
{
if(feof(fp))
break;

fscanf(fp,"%lf %lf %lf %lf %lf",&(temparr[i]),&(rhoarr[i]),&(cpliqarr[i]),&(pvaparr[i]),&(hevaparr[i]));
}
fclose(fp);
frac = modf(tgiven, &intpart_temp);
for(i=0;i<maxno;i++)
{
if(tgiven>tcrit)
{
cpliqcalc = cpliqarr[725];
break;
}
else if(temparr[i] == intpart_temp)
{
j = i;
templow = temparr[i];
tempup = templow + 1;
cpliqcalc = cpliqarr[j] + ((cpliqarr[j+1]-cpliqarr[j]) * (tgiven - templow)/(tempup-templow));
}
}
p->enthalpy = cpliqcalc*(tgiven-T_REF);
return cpliqcalc;
}

If anybody has any idea or facing similar issues kindly reply.

[diamondx]

are there two way of hooking up a UDF, have you tried both ??

[ksgr]

Originally Posted by diamondx

are there two way of hooking up a UDF, have you tried both ??

I'm afraid that I haven't tried both. I just followed the procedure which was outlined in the Fluent help. Could you tell what are the two ways of hooking up UDF?
In my case, when I create a new material, for every property I select in the drop down menu "user defined" to hook up the UDF's.