[anishtain4]

Hi,

If I have a random number generator in a boundary condition (such as turbulentInlet BC), it needs a seed. Now assume for whatever reason this simulation stops and I want to resume it. If the seeding number has been passed then it only means the string of the random numbers will be reset to my very beginning time which means I'm getting duplicate data in the middle of my run.
Is there anyway to resume the random sequence? Like getting a seed number which if passed in would look like the same sequence is going on?

[GerhardHolzinger]

You can avoid generating the same random sequences by using a seed value, that is different everytime you run your application.
The system time comes to mind. If you want to execute your application in parallel you can add the PID of the process to the time. Then the seed is different for each process.

// random stuff
#include "Random.H"
#include "clock.H"
Random ranGen( clock::getTime() + pid() ) ;

for ( int j = 0; j < 20; j ++)
{
    Info << ranGen.integer(1 , 100) << endl ;
}