When I load the heatsource UDF files to heat flux, the fluent display the following error.

chip-exec: heatsource: wrong return type: void udf function expected Error: FLUENT received fatal signal (ACCESS_VIOLATION) 1. Note exact events leading to error. 2. Save case/data under new name. 3. Exit program and restart to continue. 4. Report error to your distributor. Error Object: ()

Does it means that the return valve type should be change?

MY UDF FILE:

My function is :Heat flux =0.64*[plaser*exp((-2*r*r)/(radius*radius))]/(pi*radius*radius),radius is the laser beam size. r=sqrt((x-xcenter)*(x-xcenter)+y*y)

#include "udf.h"

#define radius 8e-4 #define abs_coeff 0.4 #define plaser 1600 #define pi 3.14 #define vel 0.01 #define xbegin 0.006 #define xend 0.018

DEFINE_SOURCE(heatsource, c, th, dS, eqn) {

real x[ND_ND];

real r, z, first, xcenter, source;

real current_time;

real xc; /* xc - x coordinate */

real yc; /* yc - y coordinate */

cell_t c;

C_CENTROID(x,c,th); /* gets the cell centroid in the volume and puts it in vector x*/

xc=x[0]; /* the x coordinate of the cell - 0th component of vector x */

yc=x[1]; /* the y coordinate of the cell - 1st component of vector x */

current_time=RP_Get_Real("flow-time");

xcenter = vel*current_time+xbegin; /* assumes that at t=0 the laser is at xbegin */

r=sqrt((xc-xcenter)*(xc-xcenter)+yc*yc);

first= exp(-((2*r*r)/(radius*radius))); /* term that give the radial distribution of the laser intensity */

source = 0; /*source is zero unless otherwise specified */

if (r<=radius)

{

source=0.32*plaser*first/(pi*(radius*radius)); /* source non-zero and function of radius */

}

else

{

source = 0; /*source is 0 beyond the radius */

}

if (xend/vel<current_time)

{

source = 0; /* source is 0 if the time is larger than the time it takes to ge to the end position

this allows you to integrate and look at the solidification evenafter you stop the

laser source */

}

dS[eqn] = 0.0; /* the source does not depend on temperature so dS = 0 */

return source; }

if somebody know it, please help me. I am appreciated for your any suggestion.

thanks

1- What are these two lines above the #include directive

if they are a comment then follow the rules, 2- Each #define directive should be on a separate line

Hi, You cannot return the value. You have to just populate the dS array and return.

Thanks Venkatesh V