[immortality]

how can move this thread to post processing forum?

[immortality]

is there a suitable post processing tool for calculating mass flow rate after the run?

[gschaider]

Originally Posted by immortality

is there a suitable post processing tool for calculating mass flow rate after the run?

Yep. funkyDoCalc

[immortality]

thank you.
I did it in the folder of case terminal but
this gives this error:

Usage: funkyDoCalc [OPTIONS] <expressionDict>
options:
  -case <dir>       specify alternate case directory, default is the cwd
  -foreignMeshesThatFollowTime <<list of mesh names>>
  -latestTime       select the latest time
  -noDimensionChecking
  -noFunctionObjects
                    do not execute functionObjects
  -noZero           exclude the '0/' dir from the times list, has precedence
                    over the -zeroTime option
  -parallel         run in parallel
  -region <name>    specify alternative mesh region
  -roots <(dir1 .. dirN)>
                    slave root directories for distributed running
  -time <ranges>    comma-separated time ranges - eg, ':10,20,40:70,1000:'
  -srcDoc           display source code in browser
  -doc              display application documentation in browser
  -help             print the usage

Using: OpenFOAM-2.2.0 (see www.OpenFOAM.org)
Build: 2.2.0-b363e8d14789



--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: 
Wrong number of arguments, expected 1 found 0


FOAM exiting

[immortality]

i also examined funkyDoCalc -time '0:.0005' but same error showed.

[gschaider]

Originally Posted by immortality

i also examined funkyDoCalc -time '0:.0005' but same error showed.

Have you looked at the text of the error message? You've got to provide it the name of a dictionary. It says so twice: on the top ("expressionDict") and at the bottom ("wrong number of arguments").

Examples for such dictionaries are in the Examples-folder of swak4foam

[immortality]

what is expressionDict?

[immortality]

I found it in Examples folder:

/ just for testing a problem with surfaceFields that become variables

compareSame {
    valueType internalField;
    variables (
        "phiSq=phi*phi;"
        "phiAvg=average(phi);"
    );
    expression "phiAvg*phiAvg-average(phiSq)";
    //    expression "phiSq";
    accumulations (
        min
        max
        average
    );
}

getPtsAvg {
    valueType internalField;
    variables (
        "avgPoint=average(pts());"
    );
    expression "pts()-avgPoint";
    accumulations (
        min
        max
        average
    );
}

getPosAvg {
    valueType internalField;
    variables (
        "avgPoint=average(pos());"
    );
    expression "pos()-avgPoint";
    accumulations (
        min
        max
        average
    );
}

but i have these in controlDict:

flowInlet
    {
        type swakExpression;
        valueType patch;
        patchName left;
        expression "phi";
        accumulations (
            sum
        );
        verbose true;
    }
    flowOutlet
    {
        type swakExpression;
        valueType patch;
        patchName right;
        expression "phi";
        accumulations (
            sum
        );
        verbose true;
    }
    surfacePlane
    {
        type swakExpression;
        valueType surface;
        surfaceName midPlane;
        surface {
            type plane;
            basePoint       (0.034 0.002 0);
            normalVector    (1 0 0);
            interpolate true;
        }
        verbose true;
        expression "mag(U)";
        accumulations (
            min
            max
        );
    }
    /*surfacePlaneReuse
    {
        type swakExpression;
        valueType surface;
        surfaceName midPlane;
        verbose true;
        expression "p";
        accumulations (
            min
            max
        );
    }

I'm confused.what thing should I call in expressionDict?the name of functions?

[gschaider]

Originally Posted by immortality

what is expressionDict?

Ehsan. I think your main problem is that you don't stop to think for 3 minutes before you start typing (because then you would have reread the error message in your previous posting and by just thinking "what could these english sentences mean" you would have come to the answer). Of course expressionDict is the placeholder name for whatever dictionary file you chose to use (the syntax <expressionDict> is quite common in man-pages, etc).

One effect of your quick-fire follow-up questions is that people regret that they answered your first question.

[immortality]

I'm not native speaker of english.then how its possible that i understand what expressionDict means.I read the message.but its not rational to expect someone who is not familiar by something could grasp all of aspects eventually himself.if it was so no one ask anyone.
how its certain that "expressionDict" means the name of dictionary function?
its possible to use better error messages than be angry!
its valuable to remember when we didn't know that thing.
although i'm sometimes like you and soon become angry when someone ask something that i know now.but i try consciously to control this sense.
i always thank you for your guidances.

[immortality]

I typed funkyDoCalc flowInlet
but seems there is a trouble in reading dictionary.

--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR: 
Istream not OK for reading dictionary 

file: flowInlet at line 1.

    From function dictionary::read(Istream&, bool)
    in file db/dictionary/dictionaryIO.C at line 91.

FOAM exiting

[immortality]

the flowInlet is as below:

flowInlet
    {
        type swakExpression;
        valueType patch;
        patchName left;
        expression "phi";
        accumulations (
            sum
        );
        verbose true;
    }
    flowOutlet
    {
        type swakExpression;
        valueType patch;
        patchName right;
        expression "phi";
        accumulations (
            sum
        );
        verbose true;
    }
    surfacePlane
    {
        type swakExpression;
        valueType surface;
        surfaceName midPlane;
        surface {
            type plane;
            basePoint       (0.034 0.002 0);
            normalVector    (1 0 0);
            interpolate true;
        }
        verbose true;
        expression "mag(U)";
        accumulations (
            min
            max
        );
    }

i have put this in controlDict.is this wrong?should i place it anywhere( a text file maybe)else?
thank you again.please don't be regretful of helping.

[immortality]

please anyone who knows give me an instance of performing funkyDoCalc.

[immortality]

what do you mean by dictionary file exactly?which dictionary name should i add?
I added the function name used if you mean that.but that error was displayed.why?how to use this tool correctly?
Any example?

[gschaider]

Originally Posted by immortality

I'm not native speaker of english.

Neither am I

Originally Posted by immortality

then how its possible that i understand what expressionDict means.I read the message.but its not rational to expect someone who is not familiar by something could grasp all of aspects eventually himself.

The <someFile>-convention is used consistently across all OpenFOAM-utilities and something you should have encountered before (in fact the OF-guys didn't invent it. It comes from the Backus-Maur Form http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus–Naur_Form)

Originally Posted by immortality

if it was so no one ask anyone.
how its certain that "expressionDict" means the name of dictionary function?
its possible to use better error messages than be angry!
its valuable to remember when we didn't know that thing.
although i'm sometimes like you and soon become angry when someone ask something that i know now.but i try consciously to control this sense.
i always thank you for your guidances.

The error messages are generated by OpenFOAM if an argument is missing. There is nothing the utility can do about it (the utility only tells OF "I will need this argument". OF ensures that it is there). The advantage is that this is handled consistently. If you don't like the error message file a bug at http://www.openfoam.org/bugs/

Examples for the use of funkyDoCalc will be found around slide 107 of
http://openfoamwiki.net/images/2/2a/...esentation.pdf

And please don't post a new question every 10 minutes: you're only proving my point

[wyldckat]

Originally Posted by immortality

how can move this thread to post processing forum?

I've moved the thread to the Post-Processing forum.
Next time you need a thread moved, contact one of the moderators or administrators:

1. Go to the main forum: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/
2. Scroll down to near the end of the page.
3. You should see the following text+link at the bottom of the forums table: View Forum Leaders
4. In that page you should see the list of admins and moderators you can contact to ask that they move your thread.

[immortality]

I saw the presentation slide notes.but i didn't figure it out what does " dictionary checkSimulation" mean yet.

funkyDoCalc -time 0.05: checkSimulation

this is part of controlDict I think the required dictionary should be here or am i wrong?

libs (
         "libOpenFOAM.so"
         "libgroovyBC.so"
         "libsimpleSwakFunctionObjects.so" 
         "libswakFunctionObjects.so"
         "libfixedMeanValue.so"
     );

functions
{
    /*massflow
    {
        type            faceSource;
        functionObjectLibs ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");
        enabled         true;
        outputControl   timeStep;
        log             true;
        valueOutput     false;
        source          patch;
        sourceName      left;
        operation       sum;

        fields
        (
            phi
        );
    }
   massflow
    {
        type            faceSource;
        functionObjectLibs ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");
        enabled         true;
        outputControl   timeStep;
        log             true;
        valueOutput     false;
        source          patch;
        sourceName      right;
        operation       sum;

        fields
        (
            phi
        );
    }*/
    

    flowInlet
    {
        type swakExpression;
        valueType patch;
        patchName left;
        expression "phi";
        accumulations (
            sum
        );
        verbose true;
    }
    flowOutlet
    {
        type swakExpression;
        valueType patch;
        patchName right;
        expression "phi";
        accumulations (
            sum
        );
        verbose true;
    }
    surfacePlane
    {
        type swakExpression;
        valueType surface;
        surfaceName midPlane;
        surface {
            type plane;
            basePoint       (0.034 0.002 0);
            normalVector    (1 0 0);
            interpolate true;
        }
        verbose true;
        expression "mag(U)";
        accumulations (
            min
            max
        );
    }

which phrase should i use instead of expressionDict?
would you please give me a brief but clear answer so that i don't need to ask again what that is simple to you but i'm unfamiliar with?
thank you very much.

[immortality]

and how to edit the title dear Bruno? I've written "how to calculating" in return of "how to calculate"by mistake.could edit it please?

edit: my trouble with funkyDoCalc is remained yet.I don't know how to apply it.

edit 2: dear Bruno,there was more traffic in solving thread and i reached answers somewhat more quickly!

edit 3: dear Bruno,there was more traffic in solving thread and i reached answers somewhat more quickly!
Why did you transferred me to the desert!
There are many post processing threads in solving forum to move them.
Don't turn sad.I'm just jesting!

[wyldckat]

Hi Ehsan,

Seriously, if you have anything to add to a post, edit the last one... and before you post, refresh the page, to confirm if you have already posted or not

Otherwise, the same way you wrote sometime ago about ignoring certain answers people give you, other people will start ignoring or continue to ignore your questions
And it's the weekend... people are resting, not spending unlimited time in online support...

OK, it took me a while to look into the PDF file and do some tests. Here's what I've done:

1. I used the tutorial "incompressible/simpleFoam/pitzDaily" as the test case.
2. Ran the standard applications that should be executed:
   

   blockMesh
   simpleFoam

3. The PDF file Bernhard gave the link for, in page 108, says the following:
   

   And starts editing a dictionary checkSimulation

   This means that the user began editing the file named "checkSimulation". It does not say anything about "controlDict"
4. Instead, I've created the file "fdcMassFlow", inside the case folder, with the following content:
   

   massFlow
   {
     valueType patch;
     patchName inlet;
     variables (
       "rhoMagU{inlet} = 1000.0*( U & Sf() );"
     );
     expression "rhoMagU";
     accumulations (
       min
       max
       average
       sum
     );
   }

   A lot of "accumulations" here, because I wanted to check what each value provided. I used "variables", only because it was a good way to test what could be done with it.
   The expression used is a replacement for the "phi" field, because in this case we don't have it.
5. Now, to run the funkyDoCalc application with the file "fdcMassFlow", I ran:
   

   funkyDoCalc -time :200 fdcMassFlow

6. It gave me the following output:
   

   Time = 0
   massFlow : swak4Foam: Setting default mesh
   swak4Foam: Allocating new repository for sampledGlobalVariables
   --> FOAM Warning : 
       From function ExpressionResult::getUniformInternal(const label size,bool noWarn)
       in file ExpressionResult/ExpressionResultI.H at line 324
       The minimum value -0.0178262 and the maximum -0.00313389 differ. I will use the average -0.00846667
    min=-0.00846667 max=-0.00846667 average=-0.00846667 sum=-0.254
   
   Time = 50
   massFlow : --> FOAM Warning : 
       From function ExpressionResult::getUniformInternal(const label size,bool noWarn)
       in file ExpressionResult/ExpressionResultI.H at line 324
       The minimum value -0.0178262 and the maximum -0.00313389 differ. I will use the average -0.00846667
    min=-0.00846667 max=-0.00846667 average=-0.00846667 sum=-0.254
   
   Time = 100
   massFlow : --> FOAM Warning : 
       From function ExpressionResult::getUniformInternal(const label size,bool noWarn)
       in file ExpressionResult/ExpressionResultI.H at line 324
       The minimum value -0.0178262 and the maximum -0.00313389 differ. I will use the average -0.00846667
    min=-0.00846667 max=-0.00846667 average=-0.00846667 sum=-0.254
   
   Time = 150
   massFlow : --> FOAM Warning : 
       From function ExpressionResult::getUniformInternal(const label size,bool noWarn)
       in file ExpressionResult/ExpressionResultI.H at line 324
       The minimum value -0.0178262 and the maximum -0.00313389 differ. I will use the average -0.00846667
    min=-0.00846667 max=-0.00846667 average=-0.00846667 sum=-0.254
   
   Time = 200
   massFlow : --> FOAM Warning : 
       From function ExpressionResult::getUniformInternal(const label size,bool noWarn)
       in file ExpressionResult/ExpressionResultI.H at line 324
       The minimum value -0.0178262 and the maximum -0.00313389 differ. I will use the average -0.00846667
    min=-0.00846667 max=-0.00846667 average=-0.00846667 sum=-0.254
   End

   Which is... strange Well, the "sum" result seems to be correct, from what I calculated in ParaView.

Best regards,
Bruno

[immortality]

thank you.
ok.thanks for advice.I'll edit my posts into one.
a)humm.then we should make a separate text file in the folder of case.
a question occurred to me now.is not it possible to answer such this clearly:"make a text file in case folder and put your functions in it and put its name in place of <expressionDict>" in return of giving confusing links and taking some days and...was that so difficult?

b)when I told such thing that i ignore other answers?
i remember that always appreciate any idea,hint,remark,thought,opinion,...

c)here is not weekend.weekend is friday.sunday is working day like sun is shining in the sky.friday is holiday not sunday.you mistake there

d)the high numbers of dear visitors shows that nobody ignores me.why such thing should occur in your opinion? in our iranians culture and according to what my adviser told is an our proverb"not knowing is not bad but not asking is bad" all of us want to know more and resolve our problems and also help others in aspects we know about.