Question about extracting volume averaged pressure value
 

Hi,

May I ask, in cfx-post, how to extract the volume averaged pressure value of a cylinder shape volume(like in the attached picture) from my fluid domain?

Shall I still go 'Insert -> Location - Volume'?



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Thank you very much!

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The picture is already attached. It is just a small cylinder. And I only need to know the averaged pressure value in this volume. Thanks!

A search in the manual on volume average would give you: volumeAve(<var|Expression>)@<Location>

In your case it would be something like volumeAve(Pressure)@cylinder

The problem is my fluid domain is not cylindrical. I need to put a cylinder there by myself so that I can extract only the value inside the cylinder. But how to put a cylinder into my fluid domain?

1. Take the equation of your cylinder, such as

2. Create an expression for the radius

radius = sqrt(x^2 + y^2)

3. Create a other expressions to check whether you're inside the cylinder:

insideCylinderZdir = if(radius < , yourvariable, 0)

insideCylinder = if( zCylinderInf < z && z < zCylinderTop, insideCylinderZdir, 0 )

where 'zCylinderInf' and 'zCylinderTop' are the extreme positions of your cylinder in it's axial direction.

4. Create an expression to average 'insideCylinder' over your entire domain:

cylAve = volumeAve(insideCylinder)@domain

That should do it.

Cheers.

Where should I add these expressions?

They should be added as CEL Expressions. CFX has lots of tutorials that address how to use them.