[jameswilson620]

I have a question pertaining to operations in openFOAM. I have experienced some compiling errors when trying to modify UEqn.H according to another thread I started: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...interfoam.html

This question comes about as I would like to simply multiply or divide, as was the case in the thread above, however the operator "/" was not valid.

I see in another thread, bare with me here : http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...-alpha-eq.html

that the multiplication operation "..U*grad(alpha)..." was defined as: "fvc::grad(alpha1) & Ug"

volScalarField Su
(
IOobject
(
"Su",
runTime.timeName(),
mesh
),
// Divergence term is handled explicitly to be
// consistent with the explicit transport solution
fvc::grad(alpha1) & Ug

);

I know this is trivial but Im having difficulties finding a list of "operators" such as * and /. Why is multiplication:* represented as & ?

Could someone kindly provide an explanation for whats happening here and provide some information for what to di in scenarios like this?

Thanks, James

[chrisb2244]

This link is pretty great for this kind of problem:

http://www.foamcfd.org/Nabla/guides/ProgrammersGuidese4.html


Pretty sure it's accurate, at least it used to be. Haven't checked recently but doubt either it or OF have changed their operators.