[cojua8]

Hello, I am working with kinematic clouds and I need the lagrangian data to be written after every time step, and field data at writeControl settings.

Is there any way to do this?

[bjnieuwboer]

Hi cojua8,

I am struggling with the same problem. I don't think it is possible at the moment. At least not out of the box. I found 2 solution direction which both did not work for me:

-I started using a cloud function with particle tracks. However, this wrote only 2 particles out of 700 for me. The trackInterval also seems to be a factor times the write time. It does the opposite we would like: it write less timesteps.
The cloud function can be added to the kinematicProperties.

cloudFunctions
{
  particleTracks1
  {
            type            particleTracks;
            trackInterval   5;
            maxSamples      1000000;
            resetOnWrite    yes;
      }
}

-Secondly, in the cloud class there is a public method called writePositions(). In the solver one could call this method for every timestep by adding:

kinematicCloud.writePositions();

This write the positions to a obj file. However, it does only does this per processor and without including any details on the particle like origId and origProcId for identifying the individual particles. Secondly, I got the impression that this file is overwritten every time step.

I hope this gives you and others some directions for solving this problem.