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Hello Foamers,

I am working on a solid conduction problem using laplacianFoam where I wish to add a heat generation term Q [W/m^3] on selected cells (using topoSet) in the mesh. I have modified the laplacianFoam in following way:

fvm::ddt(T) - fvm::laplacian(DT, T) - fvOptions(T)

But I need to apply the heat generation term which I intend to keep constant. I am not sure how I achieve that with the above formulation.


After reading on fvOptions, I realized that I could use scalarExplicitSetValue to define a scalar explicit source. But this method will only fix temperature in the selected cellZone whereas I intend to fix the heat generation rate.


I do not intend to define the heat generation region in geometry this is why fvOption is more suitable for my problem. I am looking forward to your insights.

Thank you.