Error: Invalid Initialization
 

Hi,

I have a mesh with multiple regions and need to solve different chemical reactions in different fluid regions. Therefore I would like to modify the chtMultiRegionFoam solver in a way that it solves chemical reactions in fluid regions. I got the following error during the compilation:

In file included from rhoPorousMultiRegionReactingFoam.C:107:0:
fluid/setRegionFluidFields.H:6:65: error: invalid initialization of reference of type ‘Foam::DimensionedField<double, Foam::volMesh>&’ from expression of type ‘double’
make: *** [Make/linux64GccDPOpt/rhoPorousMultiRegionReactingFoam.o] Error 1

In my createFluidFields.H I have for chemistrySh:

PtrList<DimensionedField<scalar, volMesh> > chemistrySh(fluidRegions.size());

forAll(fluidRegions, i)
{
...

chemistrySh.set
(
i,
new DimensionedField<scalar, volMesh>
(
IOobject
(
"chemistry::Sh",
runTime.timeName(),
fluidRegions[i],
IOobject::NO_READ,
IOobject::NO_WRITE
),
fluidRegions[i],
dimensionedScalar("chemistrySh", dimEnergy/dimTime/dimVolume, 0.0)
)
);
...
}
In my setRegionFluidFields.H I added this line that seems to be wrong:

DimensionedField<scalar, volMesh>& chemistrySh = chemistrySh[i];

Can anybody help me to overcome this problem? Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

Matari

Hi again,

I modified the line in my setRegionFluidFields.H:

DimensionedField<scalar, volMesh>& chem = chemistrySh[i];

Now it compiles without errors.

Hey Matari,

I also currently work on different chemical reactions for different regions.
I am still wondering if I should use the chtMultiRegionFoam because I am not interested in fluid-solid but only fluid-fluid coupling. I simply need the multi region feature.

Let's assume one has two fluid zones with different reactions. How do you define the interface boundaries between the regions for the species?