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Old   February 25, 2011, 14:41
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Dear Open Foam Community,

I am a brand new to OpenFoam.

I would like to create a field like
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volScalarField toto = toto1 * heaviside(phi) + toto2 * heaviside(-phi);
where toto1 and toto2 are two "constants" and phi is a "volScalarField". Is there a way to do this?

Many thanks in advance,
Martin.
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Hi Martine

You could use either of the functions Foam::neg or Foam:os. These functions return 1 if the argument is negative (positive) and 0 if the argument is positive (negative). I do not know how the functions handles 0, however.

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Old   February 25, 2011, 15:24
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Indeed!

Thanks so much, Niels!

Martin.

PS: Is there a way to close the thread and tag is "solved"?
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