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Old   September 16, 2013, 04:37
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Hello All,
because ParaFoam cannot work with uniformfixedValue I need to use
changeDictionary -time 70,80,90,100 this option does not work only the first time gets changed.

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Old   September 17, 2013, 14:01
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Hi Wouter,

I am sorry to tell that after a quick look in the source code, then it does what it is designed for, since there is no loop over the time instances.

It reads the time list given by the user, if the time list is of length zero, the utility throws an error and otherwise it does:

Code:
runTime.setTime(times[0], 0);
i.e. sets the current time instance to the first element in the user defined list. Therefore, it seems that you only have two options:

1. Execute for each time instance "manually" or,
2. Modify the solver.

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Hello ngj,

So I can assume the bugreport has to mention the bug in the help text.

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Greetings to all!

@Wouter: Ah, this is one of those situations where shell scripting can come in handy. Try this:
Code:
for timeIter in 70 80 90 100; do
  changeDictionary -time $timeIter
done
It's the same as:
Code:
for timeIter in 70 80 90 100; do  changeDictionary -time $timeIter ; done
As for bug reporting, I would say that this is a bug, because the description for the "-time" option is misleading.
But for reporting bugs to be fixed in OpenFOAM, you have to write the bug report on the official bug tracker: http://www.openfoam.org/bugs/

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Dear wyldckat,
Thank you again for the scripts. A hurdle is signing in for a bugreport.
I looked at sample an reconstructPar and I think it is a challenge to write my own change dir. But in the meantime I will use your script.

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Originally Posted by wyldckat View Post
Greetings to all!

@Wouter: Ah, this is one of those situations where shell scripting can come in handy. Try this:
Code:
for timeIter in 70 80 90 100; do
  changeDictionary -time $timeIter
done
It's the same as:
Code:
for timeIter in 70 80 90 100; do  changeDictionary -time $timeIter ; done
Note that in bash, you can also loop as follow

Code:
for ((i=70; i<101; i+=10)); do...; done
And, probably, this would also help you (but use with cause)
Code:
for dir in [0-9]*; do ...; done;
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Old   September 18, 2013, 11:50
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Dear Bernhard,
Thanks for that option, because I have 300 timesteps in parallel.
I have to run it in every processor and it is slow.

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for future use I renamed BC uniformFixedValue to TimeVaryingFixedValue.

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