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Old   September 25, 2009, 13:44
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Hi,
I have ran a case for a flow in channel. and I would like to use the outlet velocity as the inlet velocity in another case.

The mesh is exactly the same in that plane for both cases. How do i do that?
I am very new to OpenFoam so have no idea how to accomplish this task.

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Old   October 1, 2009, 07:39
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I've been fiddling with it for a very long time! You need to use timeVaryingMappedFixedValue as boundary condition on the inlet of the target case. Look at the pitzDailyExptInlet tutorial (for OF-1.6) for an example. The field is mapped from the data under constant/boundaryData

You have to write a sampleDict to sample the field from the outlet patch of the source case. Choose foamFile as output.
(use the command
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find -name sampleDict
under $WM_PROJECT_DIR/applications to find a commented example)


Give the command
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sample -latestTime
this will produce a new directory named surface.

Eventually, you'll have to modify the coordinates in the file named points to make it agree with the coordinates of the target patch. You can use these values to map the field on your inlet.


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Old   October 1, 2009, 12:06
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Thanks a lot for the info..I will try it out.. is there any way that I could also add some fluctuations to this field? for turbulence simulation..

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Old   October 1, 2009, 12:31
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i've read about it several times but you 'd better wait for someone more experienced
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Old   February 12, 2010, 11:03
Unhappy inlet velocity from an inner surface velocity field
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Hi FOAMers,

I would like to study more in detail the velocity field on a subdomain taken from a converged OF simulation. Since the overall velocity field of the source case influences the inlet velocity of the target domain, I was thinking about sampling data on an inner plane on the source case and use them as the inlet of the target case. Note that mesh and geometry of the target case is different from the source case.

I am able to sample data from the source case using sampleDict and obtaining the wanted surface, but I do not know how to put them on the inlet of the target case.Should I edit the cells coordinates manually as suggested above or is there a faster way to do this mapping? I also guess that mapFields is not an option in my case, since there is not a defined mesh or geometry correspondence between the source and target domain.

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You can use timeVaryingMappedFixedValue for turbulence parameters like k and epsilon as well as velocity. Once you get gricci's suggestion working for velocity, try the same method for turbulence.

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Old   February 19, 2010, 03:29
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Thanks Alan, after some modifications on the initial surface data, I get timeVaryingMappedFixedValue working!
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Hi mad,

I used the sample command and changed the points by hand.
At time 0 my new case looks like this at the inlet (see attached picture 1).

Oh, by the way: It should look like picture 2

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Hi Toni,
I do not know what is happening there... I think there is something wrong with your data interpolation on the new face...Why don't you try to sample only some lines on the original mesh and create a sort of interpolation by hand? It worked for me; however I had a pretty simple geometry...

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Oh, you mean you didn't sample the whole surface?
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Oh, you mean you didn't sample the whole surface?
In the beginning I sampled the whole surface, but then I preferred to sample only some points and interpolate by hand..

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Oh, you mean you didn't sample the whole surface?
Hi val46,

Did you get your case working? With timevaryingmappedfixedvalue, I have also problem, the mapped results does not math the sampled field, even they have the same mesh geometry. It looks also ugly. Can you give me some tips?
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