[canopus]

Is it somehow possible using sampleDict to sample on a straight but inclined line at certain distance from a patch?
Say for example along the expanding wall of diffuser at particular distance from the wall or at first cell height?

someway to use

somePatchPoints

Thanks in advance

[wyldckat]

Greetings canopus,

Sorry, but I didn't understand your question. Are you asking about how to generate the list of points that are at a certain distance from a patch? So that the list can then be provided to the sampling entry?

For other readers, canopus was referring to this entry:

    somePatchPoints
    {
        // Sample nearest points on selected patches. Looks only up to
        // maxDistance away. Any sampling point not found will get value
        // pTraits<Type>::max (usually VGREAT)
        // Use with interpolations:
        // - cell (cell value)
        // - cellPatchConstrained (boundary value)
        // - cellPoint (interpolated boundary value)
        type        patchCloud;
        axis        xyz;
        points      ((0.049 0.099 0.005)(0.051 0.054 0.005));
        maxDistance 0.1;    // maximum distance to search
        patches     (".*Wall.*");
    }

that is in the file "applications/utilities/postProcessing/sampling/sample/sampleDict".

Best regards,
Bruno