[AlbertPressler]

Hello,

this is my firt post... I have got some experience in OpenFOAM, but not very much in programming.
What I like to do is to write a tool, that calculates PMV (Predicted Mean Vote) values from existing simulation runs.
As input it needs velocity magnitude, air temperature, average wall temperatures, relative humidity, metabolic rate and clothing level.
My idea is to use the air temperature and velocity fileds from the simulation and get the rest of the values from a dictionary file and run the tool after the simulation.
But I'd also like to be able to get the wall temperatures from the actual patches (averaged value from a set of patches defined in the dict file) and the humidity from the simulation results (only if water vapor is also part of the results of course).

Now my question is, what do you think would be the logical approach to this problem? Which existing tools would be the most suitable to adapt and change for my needs? I think my biggest problem is how do I implement choosing between field/patch-results or dictionary entries (something like: look for r.H. field, and if that does not exist, use the dict value)

Any ideas will be appreciated!
Cheers