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Baffles01 - createPatch & createBaffle

Posted July 21, 2018 at 11:48 by student666
Updated September 22, 2018 at 12:52 by student666

Tags internal faces, openfoam, pre processing

Objective: test cases for using following dicts:

createPatchDict
createBafflesDict

Preliminary steps:

Run the Salome script for the geometry and surface mesh generation
Export walls, inlet outlet inside cad/stl as STL (ASCII)
Run the utility buildRegionSTL, it will create the constant/triSurface folder with buildRegionSTL.stl
Export the interna mesh as interna.stl inside constant/triSurface

************Set up the SHM dict file for create Patch (highlights)...

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Utility 01 - buildRegionSTL

Posted July 21, 2018 at 09:52 by student666
Updated September 22, 2018 at 12:53 by student666

Following code has to be copied into your ./bashrc on linux system to merge toghether several STL files saved into cad/stl folder.

For more details, have a look to this screen cast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZvU...OvvbOv&index=1

thanks Tobi

Code:

function buildRegionSTL() {
    if [ -d "cad/stl" ]
    then
        if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]

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Open/Public answer to a recent blog post at LinkedIn

Posted July 14, 2018 at 08:03 by wyldckat

This blog post provides a complete answer to Tobias Holzmann's following post at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update...72321633218560

This is because LinkedIn has a limited number of characters per comment and it required me to login in order to read the complete post... so I guess it's better that I answer here instead.

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Hi Tobi and greetings to all!

Since you mentioned me here, I guess I have to answer here as...

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Personal Notes - postProcessing

Posted June 22, 2018 at 23:15 by student666

Tags functions, post processing, sampling

OF 5.x-dev

Function to be added on controlDict, maybe there's a postProcess utility, but I haven't find any.

This is for sampling fields on surfaces as stl

Code:

        pressureAverageOnTriSurface_left //name of the folder where .dat is saved
        {
            name            left;   //dumb entry ??
            
            type            surfaceFieldValue;
            libs            ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");

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Tutorial of how to plot residuals !

Posted May 31, 2018 at 06:31 by yashjo

Found this very helpful.

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolle1982

Hi all,

since apearantly noone has an idea of how to plot the residuals of a calculation on-the-fly, I will give a small manual on that:

Tutorial on "How to plot the residuals (and forces) graphically on screen on-the-fly"

Step 1:
Start the calculation and make it write out a log-file. for example