[avinashv20]

Hello Foamers,


I am trying to couple LPT with interFoam, to simulate solid particle tracking and melting of solid particle as it is acted upon by a laser. I am using OpenFOAM-in-Box-18.06v1 so create the solver. I was looking at the tutorial by Aurelia Vellier http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~hani/kur...LPT_120911.pdf but while implementing the code I am getting following error;

solidParticleCloud.C:78:53: error: ‘class Foam::solidParticle::trackingData’ has no member named ‘cloud’
   solidParticle* ptr1 = new solidParticle(mesh_, td.cloud().pos_,
                                                     ^~~~~
solidParticleCloud.C:79:30: error: ‘class Foam::solidParticle::trackingData’ has no member named ‘cloud’
   cellI, tetFaceI, tetPtI,td.cloud().dP_, td.cloud().UP_);
                              ^~~~~
solidParticleCloud.C:79:46: error: ‘class Foam::solidParticle::trackingData’ has no member named ‘cloud’
   cellI, tetFaceI, tetPtI,td.cloud().dP_, td.cloud().UP_);
                                              ^~~~~
solidParticleCloud.C: In member function ‘void Foam::solidParticleCloud::move(const dimensionedVector&)’:
solidParticleCloud.C:98:30: error: ‘class Foam::solidParticle::trackingData’ has no member named ‘cloud’
  if(mesh_.time().value()> td.cloud().tInjStart_ && mesh_.time().value()< td.cloud().tInjEnd_)
                              ^~~~~
solidParticleCloud.C:98:77: error: ‘class Foam::solidParticle::trackingData’ has no member named ‘cloud’
 _.time().value()> td.cloud().tInjStart_ && mesh_.time().value()< td.cloud().tInjEnd_)

if anyone has done this sort of thing in later versions of openFoam. Please help me solve this issue.


Thanks


Avinash Kumar Verma
Masters Student
IIT Kanpur

[bjnieuwboer]

There are two options: use an old openfoam code or port this code to a more recent code.

I've quickly browsed through the code and saw it was made for openfoam 1.6 dev. I don't know what openfoam series this is exactly. You could try using it via
openfoam 1.6 ext: https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/I...enFOAM-1.6-ext Or via openfoam 1.7.0: https://openfoam.org/download/archive/page/7/

I am not sure, if either will compile on a modern machine, since the code is more than 10 years old.

If you want to port the code to a more recent version, I would recommend you to look at what was added to this code based on the interfoam solver of 10 years old. To me, it looks like myCM.H and LPTtoVOF.H were added and the solidparticle class of openfoam 1.6 was used. You could do something similar in a current version of openfoam. I hope this helps you. It might be nice to provide your working code in the end.