[NotDrJeff]

Hello,

I am working on a case were I have defined some function objects in my controlDict including forces, fieldAverage, and some probes etc.

forces_object
{
    type    forces;
    libs    ("libforces.so");
    patches ("square");
    p       p;
    U       U;
    rho     rhoInf; //only use rhoInf for incompressible flows
    rhoInf  1000;
    CofR    (0 0 0); //Centre of rotation
    enabled true;
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
probes1
{
    type probes;
    libs ("libsampling.so");
    //dictionary probesDict;
    probeLocations
    (
	(0.025 0 0)
	(0.05 0 0)
	(0.075 0 0)
	(0.1 0 0)
	(0.15 0 0)
	(0.3 0 0)
	(0.5 0 0)
    );
    
    fields
    (
        p pMean pPrime2Mean
        U UMean UPrime2Mean
        k kMean kPrime2Mean
        omega omegaMean omegaPrime2Mean
    );
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
yplus
{
    type    yPlus;
    libs    (fieldFunctionObjects);

    enabled true;
    writeControl writeTime;
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Q
{
    type    Q;
    libs    (fieldFunctionObjects);

    enabled true;
    writeControl writeTime;
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
fieldAverage
{
    type    fieldAverage;
    libs    (fieldFunctionObjects);
    
    fields
    (
        U
        {
            mean        yes;
            prime2Mean  yes;
            base        time;
        }
        
        p
        {
            mean        yes;
            prime2Mean  yes;
            base        time;
        }
        
        k
        {
            mean        yes;
            prime2Mean  yes;
            base        time;
        }
        
        omega
        {
            mean        yes;
            prime2Mean  yes;
            base        time;
        }
    );
    
    enabled         true;
    timeStart       0.1;
    writeControl writeTime;
}

I forgot to make a change to my fieldAverage sub-dictionary before running my solver which means averages weren't calculated (I had a startTime of 100 when I was only running the case for 10s. The above was corrected after the simulation was complete).

No problem. I can just run the postProcessing utility and calculate these values after the fact can't I?

But I ran into an error. I think the error is something to do with the forces. This is strange as the forces were calculated during the actual run.

Create time

--> FOAM Warning : 
    From void Foam::Time::setControls()
    in file db/Time/Time.C at line 244
    Increasing the timePrecision from 6 to 16 to support the formatting of the current time directory 10.00012

Create mesh for time = 0

forces forces_object:
    p: p
    U: U
    rho: rhoInf
    Freestream density (rhoInf) set to 1000
    Not including porosity effects

fieldAverage fieldAverage:
    Restarting averaging for fields:
        U: starting averaging at time 0
        p: starting averaging at time 0
        k: starting averaging at time 0
        omega: starting averaging at time 0

Time = 0

Reading fields:

Executing functionObjects


--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: 
Could not find U: U or p:p in database

    From void Foam::functionObjects::forces::initialise()
    in file forces/forces.C at line 227.

FOAM exiting

Strange, but I don't care about the forces. I just need to calculate my fieldAverages, then probe those values.

So I try entering

postProcess -func fieldAverage

I assumed that this would look in the controlDict first for parameters. Am I correct?

The utility runs, but doesn't actually calculate anything. Here's an extract:

Time = 9.60012

Reading fields:

Executing functionObjects

Time = 9.70012

Reading fields:

Executing functionObjects

Time = 9.80012

Reading fields:

Executing functionObjects

Time = 9.90012

Reading fields:

Executing functionObjects

Time = 10.00012

Reading fields:

Executing functionObjects

End

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Jeffrey