Write scalar in file in every timeFolder
 

Dear Foam-Community,

i'd like to calculate the surface-area of the inlet-patch for a moving domain for every time step and write out the calculated value in a file in each time-folder.

For now i have the following code:

But it only gives out a file in the case-directory (and overwrites it???)

Does anyone has any idea how to solve this?

Regards,
Martin

You will have to change the filename, something like this?
(This will probably not work due to string concatenation)

You also have alternative solutions
- Write to logfile (Info<<) and extract data afterwards from the log file (awk)
- Use a function object. functionObjects run during run time. I am not sure if you can do this with the default ones, but with the swak functionObjects by Bernhard Gschaider you can obtain this information easily for sure.

Dear Bernhard,

thank you very much for your answer.
Unfortunately your hint did not work for me. The wmake-compiler gives out the following error:
CarreauYasudaIcoFoam.C:91:59: error: no suitable function for calling »std::basic_ofstream<char>::basic_ofstream(Foam::w ord, const char [15])«

the log-file hint migth work, although i'd really like to add it in the code.

Martin

The string concatenation is something I am not to sure about, this is something to dig into, maybe you could use something like "runTime.timeName().string()", but you wil have to experiment a bit.