Hello everybody and greetings from cold Finland

I would appricate if someone could help me to access either the material name or the emissivity of a wall thread within a UDF. Other solutions to distinguish beteween different wall boundaries are also welcome.

thank you in advance

Nici

below find some code I use to distinguish whether a thread is in a list of thread ids. It may not be super efficient but it works OK. Pass in an array of integers which have the ids - same as IDs in the boundary condition panel within the GUI. If the *thread is one of these then it returns the id else it returns NOT_WALL which you can define however.

For FLUENT 6 make sure you #define FLUENT_6 or if you only use 6.x remove the conditional compile from these lines.

Hope this is something like what you need.

Greg

/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

IS THREAD

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ int is_thread_cm(Thread *thread, int no_threads, int thread_list[]) { #ifdef FLUENT_6 Domain *domain = Get_Domain(1); #endif

int i=0;

while ((i<no_threads) && (Lookup_Thread(domain,thread_list[i])!=thread)) i++;

if (Lookup_Thread(domain,thread_list[i])==thread)

return i;

else

return NOT_WALL; }

/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

IS THREAD

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ int is_thread_cm(Thread *thread, int no_threads, int thread_list[]) { #ifdef FLUENT_6 Domain *domain = Get_Domain(1); #endif

int i=0;

while ((i<no_threads)&&(Lookup_Thread(domain,thread_list[i])!=thread)) i++;

if (Lookup_Thread(domain,thread_list[i])==thread)

return i;

else

return NOT_WALL; }

/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

IS THREAD

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ int is_thread_cm(Thread *thread, int no_threads, int thread_list[]) { #ifdef FLUENT_6 Domain *domain = Get_Domain(1); #endif

int i=0;

while ((i_<_no_threads)&&(Lookup_Thread(domain,thread_li st[i])!=thread)) i++;

if (Lookup_Thread(domain,thread_list[i])==thread)

return i;

else

return NOT_WALL; }

Sorry had some trouble posting....this last one is the right code except in the while it should be while i lessthan no_threads (in C of course)

Hej Greg,

I solved the problem on my own even though it took a while! I found in the src.h macro appropriate for my purpouse

if (strcmp( THREAD_MATERIAL(f_t), char_bed) == 0)

where char_bed is defined as

char *char_bed = "ash"

All the other walls are steel so now I can distinguish between the char bed "wall" and steel "wall"!

Thank you again for your interest,

cheers Nici

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