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Dear forum,

I do simulations on a straight pipe and would like to extract pressure averaged over the radial plane at specific locations. Of course for the inlet and outlet patches one could use

patchAverage -latestTime p <patch>

and for single planes within the domain swak4Foam is a suitable option.

For that I am using this functionObject definition in controlDict

p0
  {
      type swakExpression;
      valueType surface;
      surfaceName p0;
      surface {
          type plane;
          basePoint       (0 0 0.001);
          normalVector    (1 0 0);
          interpolate     false;
      }
      verbose true;
      accumulations ( weightedAverage );
      outputControlMode timeStep;
      outputInterval 1;
      expression "p";
  }

This gives me for a single basePoint, i.e. a single plane, the pressure averaged over the area of the plane. Using

execFlowFunctionObjects -latestTime

writes a nice output file in the postProcessing dir, such as:

#                  Time       weightedAverage
                 35000      1.86158477779654

However, I'd like to know if swak4Foam also offers the possibility to extract averages for multiple basePoints, i.e. multiple planes, and writes the result into a single file. Of course I am aware of the option to define multiple functionObjects. But, this gives also multiple output files. I am doing this so far and extracting the data using another python script. However, I'd like to know if swak4Foam offers a cleaner solution to my problem.

Any suggestions are more than welcome!

Thank you very much!

Martin