Cp along a line on a boundary surface

December 7, 2006, 06:39

Hello

I am in the process of making a utility that gives me the pressure and coordinates along a line on a boundary surface. The best way I can describe the function is that I want to specify a boundary patch, a plane and from the line created by the intersection between these extract the pressure values. I have tried the utilities supplied with OF-1.3 but I can not make any of them perform this.

Is this functionality already in OF and the reason I have not succeeded that I have not understood how to do this with the provided utilities? If it is not already in OF I will make this utility.

reg, Olle

December 7, 2006, 09:57

Hello

I have started looking into this and decided to attempt to alter sampleSurface so that it instead of the entire mesh interpolates only over the cells belonging to a wall-type boundary. Is this a silly idea?

reg, Olle

rmorgans · December 8, 2006, 01:34

Hi Olle,

I'd be interested in this as well. We have an example where we need to do something similar - extract results along a surface of a smooth contraction, calculated with potentialFoam.

We ended up using sample and offsetting the points from the surface by a fraction - the results are then postprocessed with Matlab. Not an elegant solutions and I started to look around for somethign similar to you.

Cheers

Rick

December 8, 2006, 02:09

Hello Richard

I tried using sample in that way too but I do not know the exact position of my boundary so it turned out to be just a lot of work. And, since I will need this type of data from rather complex geometries I wanted a more general approach as well.

I will post up any progress I make, I just have to try and understand the code first.

Tjipp

Olle

sylvester · September 2, 2008, 06:04

Hi Olle, Richard,

Did you manage to create a utility that extracts (and maybe even processes) data from a line on a boundary surface?

If you (or anybody else for that matter) did, or if you know an existing utility that can do this, I would be very interested in it.

By the way, sampleSurface and sample (in OF1.4.1) can not do this (at least not as far as I am aware).

Thank you very much!

Sylvester

braennstroem · October 6, 2008, 11:47

Hi,

one option could be to use visit:
http://www.visitusers.org/index.php?..._create_curves

Or does anyone got something easier without so much clicking?

Fabian

December 7, 2006, 06:39	Hello I am in the process o	#1
olle_bodin Guest Posts: n/a	Hello I am in the process of making a utility that gives me the pressure and coordinates along a line on a boundary surface. The best way I can describe the function is that I want to specify a boundary patch, a plane and from the line created by the intersection between these extract the pressure values. I have tried the utilities supplied with OF-1.3 but I can not make any of them perform this. Is this functionality already in OF and the reason I have not succeeded that I have not understood how to do this with the provided utilities? If it is not already in OF I will make this utility. reg, Olle

December 7, 2006, 09:57	Hello I have started lookin	#2
olle_bodin Guest Posts: n/a	Hello I have started looking into this and decided to attempt to alter sampleSurface so that it instead of the entire mesh interpolates only over the cells belonging to a wall-type boundary. Is this a silly idea? reg, Olle

December 8, 2006, 01:34	Hi Olle, I'd be interested	#3
rmorgans New Member Richard Morgans Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 16 Rep Power: 17	Hi Olle, I'd be interested in this as well. We have an example where we need to do something similar - extract results along a surface of a smooth contraction, calculated with potentialFoam. We ended up using sample and offsetting the points from the surface by a fraction - the results are then postprocessed with Matlab. Not an elegant solutions and I started to look around for somethign similar to you. Cheers Rick

December 8, 2006, 02:09	Hello Richard I tried using	#4
olle_bodin Guest Posts: n/a	Hello Richard I tried using sample in that way too but I do not know the exact position of my boundary so it turned out to be just a lot of work. And, since I will need this type of data from rather complex geometries I wanted a more general approach as well. I will post up any progress I make, I just have to try and understand the code first. Tjipp Olle

September 2, 2008, 06:04	Hi Olle, Richard, Did you m	#5
sylvester Member Roland Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Netherlands Posts: 92 Rep Power: 17	Hi Olle, Richard, Did you manage to create a utility that extracts (and maybe even processes) data from a line on a boundary surface? If you (or anybody else for that matter) did, or if you know an existing utility that can do this, I would be very interested in it. By the way, sampleSurface and sample (in OF1.4.1) can not do this (at least not as far as I am aware). Thank you very much! Sylvester

October 6, 2008, 11:47	Hi, one option could be to	#6
braennstroem Senior Member Fabian Braennstroem Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 407 Rep Power: 19	Hi, one option could be to use visit: http://www.visitusers.org/index.php?..._create_curves Or does anyone got something easier without so much clicking? Fabian

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