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March 14, 2011, 11:11 |
Exporting multiple flow data from particle tracks
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Andreas Håkansson
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Hi,
I am simulating (FLUENT 12.0) a turbulent flow with discrete particles (including the Discrete Random Walk Model). By using GraphicsAndAnimations -> ParticleTracks it is possible to export a xy-plot of for example turbulent kinetic energy over residence time for each particle. But I want many flow properties (turbulent kinetic energy, dissipation, ...) over the particle tracks. If I click "write" several times FLUENT will perform a new particle tracking calculations and thus the two files are not comparable. I have also tried with the Step-by-stepReport in the same menu but that will only give me particle-variables, not flow variables. Export->ExportParticleHistoryData, seem to do the same as ParticleTracks; re-calculates the tracks for each time I write to file. Does anybody have an idea? I would greatly appreciate any ideas. |
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March 15, 2011, 09:51 |
Found a way of doing it
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Andreas Håkansson
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Ok, I found a way myself, but it is not pretty: Extracted the whole field and step-by-step report for particles separately. Then exernally (MATLAB) I go through each track and interpolates the flow variables.
This will work for my but I am still interested if someone knows how to do it inside FLUENT. Kind Regards Andreas Håkansson |
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March 15, 2011, 11:09 |
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Hi,
you can also do that by implementation of a simple UDf. e.g. with a macro that execute at every particle step and write desired flow properties of cells that contain the particles. |
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March 15, 2011, 11:17 |
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Andreas Håkansson
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Thanks for your reply Amir!
I have been think on using a UDF but I was not sure how. My idea was back then to use DEFINE_DPM_OUTPUT. However it seems tricky to access flow-variables. I would need to know in what cell each particle is a each time. I never really figured out how to do this. My other suggestion was to just use the DEFINE_ON_DEMAND but i run into the same problem of finding the cells where particles are. Also in DEFINE_ON_DEMAND I never figured out how to obtain the particles. Any suggestions? |
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March 15, 2011, 15:50 |
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it's not difficult to find cell and cell-thread index that contain a particle. FLUENT has two functions for that:
P_CELL(p),P_CELL_THREAD(p) but you should use them in compiled UDFs. |
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March 16, 2011, 01:13 |
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xrs333
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Hi, Andreas Håkansson,
Now that you use DRW to take into account for the turbulent dissipation, it is meaningless to present properties one time for only one particle. |
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March 16, 2011, 02:34 |
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Andreas Håkansson
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Amir: Thanks, I didn't know about these functions. That is probably the solution.
xrs333: Thanks for your reply. I agree with you, I simulate at least 100 particles with the DRW (or until I reach convergence in my external simulation) but I want all of the flow variables for the same particle tracks. That was my problem. But I think I can solve this with Amirs anser now. |
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