[AmirBaqa1987]

Hi Dear All

for calculating h(convective heat transfer coefficient) I need to calculate mean temperature(bulk temperature) at each section of flow because my case is forced convective duct(internal) flow.

I can use patchAverage utility to define mean temperature but my problem is that I don't know how should I define patches through flow(i mean between inlet and outlet patches)

is there any other way to define mean temperature without defining patches?

do you have any idea?

thanks.
Arjang

[cfdonline2mohsen]

You can use Paraview for this purpose.
define your arbitrary slice and calculate the mean temperature on this slice.
see the following post for more info: #8

[AmirBaqa1987]

first thanks for your reply

in this way I think I should do this procedure 150 times because I want to calculate mean temperature along the axial direction of pipe at 150 different positions ( I've discrete length of pipe into 150 steps) .

can't we write a code to do this?

best regards
arjang

[nimasam]

may be you can use paraview programmable filter to do those instructions in a loop

[wyldckat]

Greetings to all!

Have a look at this thread: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post422561 - it shows a few examples on how to do this directly with OpenFOAM while the simulation is running.

Best regards,
Bruno