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Old   September 27, 2011, 16:52
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Dear Foamers,

I am currently developing a boundary condition to interpolate values over time and space like the timeVaryingMappedFixedValue patch, but for traction/pressure (tractionDisplacement patch) which inherits the fixedGradient patch.

After the interpolation weight (s) is calculated, the timeVaryingMappedFixedValue patch assigns values through this command

Code:
00710 this->operator==((1-s)*startSampledValues_ + s*endSampledValues_);
From this post, I understood that the "==" operator imposes assigned values on the patch (if a "=" is used then new values will not be imposed).

On the other hand, the tractionDisplacement BC assigns its values to gadient() as:
Code:
gradient() =
    (
        (traction_ + pressure_*n)/rho.value()
      + twoMuLambda*fvPatchField<vector>::snGrad() - (n & sigmaD)
    )/twoMuLambda;
My question is: Is it OK to just assign calculated values "gradient" to the gradient() using a "=" operator for each time step? Or is some forcing of the values needed?

Best regards,
Hisham

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