[zommuter]

Greetings!


I've put

functions
{
    forces_impeller
    {
        type    forces;
        libs    ("libforces.so");
        writeControl   writeTime;
        writeFiels       no;



         patches (impeller);
     
        rho     rhoInf;
        rhoInf  1e3;
     
        CofR (0 0 0);
    }
}

into my controllDict to obtain a uniform/functionObjects/functionObjectProperties file for each time step containing the force. But I cannot find any option in ParaView to actually use those uniform values for an annotation or plot over time. I'm also out of ideas which Python Annotation Expressions to try, since that seems to expect an array as input instead of using a uniform value.


Can anyone help me?


Best regards
Tobias

[JNSN]

Hi Tobias,


the forces functionObject gernerates time series data of the pressure, viscouse and prorous forces. The data is stored in postProcessing/../forces_impeller.dat (in your case) text files. The output format is an OpenFOAM specific format using brackets to enclose the forces and moments. To plot these data in ParaView you first need to convert the format it in order to ensure ParaView understands correctly. I think easiest is to convert to comma separated (csv) format and remove the comments. Using bash this could be done e.g.:

tail +4 forces_impeller.dat |tr -d '()' |awk 'BEGIN {OFS=","} {$1=$1}1' > forces_impeller.csv

You can then plot the data of the csv-file e.g. with the plotData Filter.


Hope this helps,
Jan

[zommuter]

Hi Jan, I'll give it a shot, thanks! I wish there were a way to directly read the existing data into ParaView though...

[JNSN]

Hi Tobias,


just to be curious, is it really necessary to plot the time series in paraview? There are a lot good tools to plot time series, gnuplot etc...
However, if you are a little bit familiar with python, you may also create a python marco, which does the file conversion. Then you do not need to do this every time in the bash

Best, Jan