Volume fraction for entire domain in interFoam

jmcneill · May 21, 2012, 08:49

All,
I'm trying to determine the total phase-1 volume fraction at each time step of a simulation to calculate the mass of phase-1 in the domain. I've tried a few methods with swak4foam and Paraview, but I'm not confident in the numbers I am seeing. I noticed that the value I want is written to the log file at each time step as "Phase-1 volume fraction =". Is there a simple way to write this value to a separate output file? Thanks in advance.

Phicau · May 21, 2012, 09:32

Hi

just type on a terminal if your log file is named "log":

Code:

cat log | grep Liquid | cut -d' ' -f6 > massLog

and you will get a file called massLog with the mass evolution.

jmcneill · May 21, 2012, 10:20

Grep is an interesting thought. Thanks for that. I haven't used grep before, but is there a way to write the time in addition to alpha1? I eventually want to be able to plot alpha1 vs time.

Phicau · May 21, 2012, 10:26

I think it would be fairly easy to write a python script to do that. Just take into account that you have several mass values each time.

gschaider · May 21, 2012, 17:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmcneill

Grep is an interesting thought. Thanks for that. I haven't used grep before, but is there a way to write the time in addition to alpha1? I eventually want to be able to plot alpha1 vs time.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phicau

I think it would be fairly easy to write a python script to do that. Just take into account that you have several mass values each time.

Extracting values from a log and plotting them can be easily (that's what I think) done with http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Co...omRegexp-files

Bernhard · May 22, 2012, 02:10

Alternatively, you can use volumeIntegrate from the simpleFunctionObjects (see contribution by Bernhard Gschaider)
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Co...unctionObjects

Advantage here is that you don't need an extra step if you put it in the controlDict.

May 21, 2012, 08:49	Volume fraction for entire domain in interFoam	#1
jmcneill New Member James McNeill Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 14	All, I'm trying to determine the total phase-1 volume fraction at each time step of a simulation to calculate the mass of phase-1 in the domain. I've tried a few methods with swak4foam and Paraview, but I'm not confident in the numbers I am seeing. I noticed that the value I want is written to the log file at each time step as "Phase-1 volume fraction =". Is there a simple way to write this value to a separate output file? Thanks in advance.

May 21, 2012, 09:32		#2
Phicau Senior Member Pablo Higuera Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Auckland Posts: 627 Rep Power: 19	Hi just type on a terminal if your log file is named "log": Code: cat log \| grep Liquid \| cut -d' ' -f6 > massLog and you will get a file called massLog with the mass evolution.

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May 21, 2012, 10:20		#3
jmcneill New Member James McNeill Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 14	Grep is an interesting thought. Thanks for that. I haven't used grep before, but is there a way to write the time in addition to alpha1? I eventually want to be able to plot alpha1 vs time.

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Phicau Senior Member Pablo Higuera Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Auckland Posts: 627 Rep Power: 19	I think it would be fairly easy to write a python script to do that. Just take into account that you have several mass values each time.

May 22, 2012, 02:10		#6
Bernhard Senior Member Bernhard Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Delft Posts: 790 Rep Power: 21	Alternatively, you can use volumeIntegrate from the simpleFunctionObjects (see contribution by Bernhard Gschaider) http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Co...unctionObjects Advantage here is that you don't need an extra step if you put it in the controlDict.