engineTime in OF-9 not writing out timesteps for specific configurations

mturcios777 · May 9, 2022, 17:43

Hello all,

I'm updating some old solvers up to OpenFoam-9, and an running into an issue with writing out timestep directories.

If I use writeControl of timeSteps, cpuTime, clockTime, everything works as expected. However, I want to write at a specific crank angle, so in the past I've used adjustableRunTime and set the adjustTimeStep to yes and this has worked out fine.

When running engineFoam/XiEngineFoam in OpenFOAM-9, this no longer outputs any timestep. I suspect this has to do with conversion from simulation time to crank angle. Has anyone else experienced this?

The tutorial kivaTest with XiFoam uses runTime and a non adjustable time step.

mturcios777 · May 9, 2022, 18:50

After some digging, I see that there was a fix pushed 5 months ago (I am using the downloadable source pack). The beginTime_ hadn't been set properly.

May 9, 2022, 17:43	engineTime in OF-9 not writing out timesteps for specific configurations	#1
mturcios777 Senior Member Marco A. Turcios Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 740 Rep Power: 28	Hello all, I'm updating some old solvers up to OpenFoam-9, and an running into an issue with writing out timestep directories. If I use writeControl of timeSteps, cpuTime, clockTime, everything works as expected. However, I want to write at a specific crank angle, so in the past I've used adjustableRunTime and set the adjustTimeStep to yes and this has worked out fine. When running engineFoam/XiEngineFoam in OpenFOAM-9, this no longer outputs any timestep. I suspect this has to do with conversion from simulation time to crank angle. Has anyone else experienced this? The tutorial kivaTest with XiFoam uses runTime and a non adjustable time step.

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May 9, 2022, 18:50		#2
mturcios777 Senior Member Marco A. Turcios Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 740 Rep Power: 28	After some digging, I see that there was a fix pushed 5 months ago (I am using the downloadable source pack). The beginTime_ hadn't been set properly.