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Old   February 25, 2010, 05:14
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Hej,

I know that I can access the volume of the cells with mesh.V(). But for some reason, the following two lines of code give an error message upon compiling

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const fvMesh& mesh = alpha1_.mesh();
const volScalarField& volumeCell = mesh.V();
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invalid initialization of reference of type ‘const Foam::volScalarField&’ from expression of type ‘const Foam::DimensionedField<double, Foam::volMesh>’
Does anybody have an idea why this assignment does not work?
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Hi,

try this const scalarField& Volumes = mesh.V();

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this worked for the part that it did not complain while compiling, the problem now is that it is not a volumeField anymore. therefore I can not use it in further calculations for volumefields like in this one

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const volScalarField& p = alpha1_.db().lookupObject<volScalarField>("p");
    volScalarField limitedAlpha1 = min(max(alpha1_, scalar(0)), scalar(1));
    const fvMesh& mesh = alpha1_.mesh(); // get the underlying mesh
    const scalarField& volumeCell = mesh.V(); 

      limitedAlpha1 * rho1() * volumeCell * (Tsat_-Tinf_) * 
        combFrequency_/(ifg_ * (1-limitedAlpha1)),
      rho2()*0.0*combFrequency_*(pSat()/p)
I want to calculate the mass "rho1()*volumeCell*limitedAlpha1" of the water within the cell. How would I do this.
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Does anyone have an idea? The goal is to have a volScalarField with dimensions m^3, containing the cell volumes in order to calculate further with it.

The programmer's guide gives

volScalarField foo = mesh.V(), but this assignment does not work.
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A quick fix might be to set the internalField of a volScalarField:

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volumeCell.internalField() = mesh.V();
Edit: Corrected.
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Hi

According to Doxygen, this is the following is the way to access the volume:

const Foam:imensionedField<double, Foam::volMesh> & foo = mesh.V();

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http://foam.sourceforge.net/doc/Doxy...4cd0efe7fb3baa

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Code:
const Foam::DimensionedField<double, Foam::volMesh> & volumeCell = mesh.V();
Does compile but then I run into the problem that I can't use it to calculate the mass or something else by simply multiplying it, because the operator "*" is not defined for this data type.

This is the reason I want a volScalarField, which contains the volume of each cell of the mesh. It doesn't even have to be dimensioned, because that can be fixed with work arounds. But it must be possible to somehow get the volume of each cell into a volScalarField.

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const volScalarField& volumeCell.internalField() = mesh.V();
does not compile, neither does any other combination
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Hi

A work around, as you have spent a lot of time on this is to do for instance as follows:

// gamma being a volScalarField
scalarField V = mesh.V();
forAll(V,i)
{
gamma[i] *= V[i];
}

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I would go with Laurence idea:

volScalarField cellVolu
(
IOobject
(
"cellVolu",
runTime.timeName(),
mesh,
IOobject::NO_READ,
IOobject::AUTO_WRITE
),
mesh,
dimensionedScalar("zero", dimVolume, 0.0)
);
cellVolu.internalField() = mesh.V();


At least for me it does the job!

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Hej Jens, thanks for the reply, one more question about the following code snippet

Code:
volScalarField cellVolu
    (
    IOobject
       (
        "cellVolu",
        runTime.timeName(),
        mesh,
        IOobject::NO_READ,
        IOobject::AUTO_WRITE
       ),
        mesh,
    dimensionedScalar("zero", dimVolume, 0.0)
    );   
    cellVolu.internalField() = mesh.V(); 
Do I integrate this code into the createFields.H and then read it out while in my solver like
Code:
const volScalarField& volumes = alpha1_.db().lookupObject<volScalarField>("cellVolu");
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I don't know, what you want to do. But cellVolu gives you a field of the cell volumes (this is already of type volScalarField).
If alpha1 is your volume fraction denity*cellVolu gives you the mass per cell. (but this is not the answer?)

Hope it helps.

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Thank you for this snippet. I will try the method tomorrow and see what I get.
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Thanks, this worked wonderfully.
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