[oscar_urri]

hello everyone,

i'm having troubles understanding the cyclic BC in Openfoam,

what i would like to know is if it is possible to access and change the velocity field in a cyclic bc, to set a non-uniform custom bc.

and if it is, should i try to change the owner patch or the slave patch?

i've looked several times at cyclicFvPatchField.C

and it doesn't at any point make a reference to the owner patch, the only thing i've concluled is that it sets the neighbour patch to be the same as the internalfield.

code:

template<class Type>
const cyclicFvPatchField<Type>& cyclicFvPatchField<Type>::neighbourPatchField()
const
{
const GeometricField<Type, fvPatchField, volMesh>& fld =
static_cast<const GeometricField<Type, fvPatchField, volMesh>&>
(
this->internalField()
);

return refCast<const cyclicFvPatchField<Type> >
(
fld.boundaryField()[this->cyclicPatch().neighbPatchID()]
);
}


so i would really appreciate if someone could give me an idea on how to change the bc to set a custom velocity vector field, for the cyclic bc. (i need the cyclic bc cause i also need to use the fan bc for a pressure jump).

thanks

Oscar