[foamUser2020]

Hello everyone.

I hope you are having a great Spring.

I would like to calculate the TKE budget, but since I haven't calculate this in OF before, I am not aware of any functions which does that for me.
So I have searched for a while and found https://github.com/sidShinde/tkeBudget on github. I downloaded the code and used wmake. However, when I run it for my case, it does not write out anything in the case folder.

Here is the details:

After wmake, I will have "tkeBudget" folder in "/opt/openfoam7/platforms/linux64GccDPInt32Opt/applications/utilities"

When I run any of the following commands:

- $ pisoFoam -postProcess -latestTime
- $ postProcess -latestTime

I get:

Create time

Create mesh for time = 8000

Time = 8000
Reading field p

Reading field U

Reading/calculating face flux field phi

Selecting incompressible transport model Newtonian
Selecting turbulence model type LES
Selecting LES turbulence model dynamicKEqn
Selecting LES delta type cubeRootVol
dynamicKEqnCoeffs
{
filter simple;
Ce 1.048;
}

No MRF models present

No finite volume options present
tkeBudget tkeBudgetDict: storing fields:
Pik
Pk
Dk
Tk
Epik
Ck

executing the else statement

End


Also, if I run:

$ postProcess -func tkeBudget -latestTime


I get:

Create time

Create mesh for time = 8000

--> FOAM Warning :
From function static bool Foam::functionObjectList::readFunctionObject(const Foam::string&, Foam::dictionary&, Foam::HashSet<>&, const Foam::word&)
in file db/functionObjects/functionObjectList/functionObjectList.C at line 278
Cannot find functionObject file tkeBudget
Time = 8000

Reading fields:

Executing functionObjects

End



AND when I run:

$ postProcess -func tkeBudgetDict -latestTime

I get:

Create time

Create mesh for time = 8000


--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
keyword type is undefined in dictionary "controlDict.functions.tkeBudgetDict.tkeBudgetDict "

file: controlDict.functions.tkeBudgetDict.tkeBudgetDict from line 22 to line 43.

From function const Foam::entry& Foam::dictionary::lookupEntry(const Foam::word&, bool, bool) const
in file db/dictionary/dictionary.C at line 573.




I really would appreciate if anyone can guide me how to use this function, OR if there are other ways to calculate the TKE budget and plot it.


Thank you,

[Andrea1984]

Hi,

I have hardcoded the calculations of some terms of the TKE budget in this solver: https://github.com/AndreaDesan/pimpleTKEBudgetFoam

It should be fairly easy to extend this to include all the terms in budget.

Hope this helps!
Andrea

[foamUser2020]

Originally Posted by Andrea1984

Hi,

I have hardcoded the calculations of some terms of the TKE budget in this solver: https://github.com/AndreaDesan/pimpleTKEBudgetFoam

It should be fairly easy to extend this to include all the terms in budget.

Hope this helps!
Andrea

Thank you Andrea for your reply. I finished the related project with the same function I mentioned in my post. But I am eager to look at your code and use it for my future needs.

Thanks again.