CFD Online Discussion Forums - fieldAverage restarts mid-run

Hello,

I am using the following fieldAverage in my controlDict (1.7.x):

Code:

    

fieldAverage1

    {

        type            fieldAverage;

        functionObjectLibs ( "libfieldFunctionObjects.so" );

        enabled         true;

        cleanRetart     false;

        outputControl   outputTime;

        fields

        (

            U

            {

                mean        on;

                prime2Mean  on;

                base        time;

            }



            p

            {

                mean        on;

                prime2Mean  on;

                base        time;

            }

        );

    }

I restarted the case from a previous timestep which contained time-averaged quantities. Upon restarting, the log does say:

Code:

fieldAverage: restarting averaging for fields:

    U iters = 11001 time = 0.040993

    p iters = 11001 time = 0.040993

So everything looks fine. As I monitor the written timesteps, I notice that /uniform/fieldAveragingProperties.gz shows the number of iters and total time increasing as expected. This continues until the averaging restarts in the middle of the run with the log file message: regIOobject::readIfModified(): for the controlDict. I did not change anything in the fieldAverage section, but only the writeInterval. So now the total number of iters and time is back to 0 and the averaging has been taking place ever since that random restart.

Could such a restart be caused by modifying parts of the controlDict which are not affecting the fieldAverage part? Is there anything I can do to combine these two time-averaged sets?