[t.teschner]

I am running fluent through a journal file and I am setting up a surface monitor to get some data from a point measurement. The relevant script is below:

; create average vertex monitor for pressure-mon
/solve/report-definitions add pressure-mon surface-vertexavg
field pressure
per-surface yes
average-over 1
surface-names p1 p2 p3

I.e. I want to output the pressure at points p1, p2 and p3. However, the command "surface-names" is asking indefinitely for points at which to monitor, if I want to quit that command in Fluent I simply press enter; no name results in the command to quit. How can I achieve that when running fluent in batch mode? (i.e. just running the journal file, no GUI interactions)? Otherwise, any command put after surface-names results in an error.

[t.teschner]

I eventually solved it, a comma terminates the input (posting the solution here for someone with a similar problem in the future)

Instead of calling

surface-names p1 p2 p3

I have to call

surface-names p1 p2 p3 ,

instead, which solves my issue. You may need to put a "q" (without quotation marks) on the next line to exit the current sub-menu.

[LuckyTran]

You could also give it an open and close parentheses () which is the empty argument signifying the end of the list. A list of surface names can in general be any number, so there needs to be a termination for the list of names. Anything you put after surfaces names has to be a valid surface name or it will end in an error.

When you are working in the terminal, pressing enter returns actually a suggested default output. You may have noticed such words when working in the terminal like () "Pressure" "Temperature" Y/N depending on the context. That's why in the terminal you press enter and it leaves this prompt but in batch mode you have to explicitly give it (). You are not quitting, you are actually finishing the prompt and going onto the next prompt.