[khalifa]

Hi . I am using the function FoamCal to measure the temperature for all time steps, However, this function present the results on the terminal, and I would appreciate if someone tell me how to extract these data to Csv file or so.

another related question, how can I plot the temperature over time directly from paraView ?

Thanks.

[cgerrity]

From paraView, you can just select "file" and save data. It gives the option to save as csv files, which Excel should be able to parse.

[khalifa]

Originally Posted by cgerrity

From paraView, you can just select "file" and save data. It gives the option to save as csv files, which Excel should be able to parse.

Thank you for your reply.

I did that and selected " Write all time steps ", However, an independent csv file for each time was created which is not practical for me as I want to plot the temperature against time.

any other suggestion about how can I have all data for different time steps saved in the same file ?

[cgerrity]

Originally Posted by khalifa

Thank you for your reply.

I did that and selected " Write all time steps ", However, an independent csv file for each time was created which is not practical for me as I want to plot the temperature against time.

any other suggestion about how can I have all data for different time steps saved in the same file ?

You could concatenate the files together if you want them in one file. The linux terminal syntax is

cat foo1.csv foo2.csv foo3.csv > newfoo.csv

[Linse]

I do not know the foamCalc output. But if it prints the information to the screen, it also can be printed into a file. Probably your shell has all the needed tools already installed:

If you want the output of foamCalc into a file instead of the screen:
"foamCalc someoptionsorparameters > outputfile"

If you want only lines with a certain content of the foamCalc output to be printed into a file:
"foamCalc someoptionsorparameters | grep selectioncontent > outputfile"

Of course there might be better solutions for your case! But these probably would be my first attempts.

[khalifa]

Originally Posted by cgerrity

You could concatenate the files together if you want them in one file. The linux terminal syntax is

cat foo1.csv foo2.csv foo3.csv > newfoo.csv

Thank you for your reply. this is actually helpful but unfortunately I have too many time steps and therefore files and its almost impossible to use this. Thanks anyways

[khalifa]

Originally Posted by Linse

I do not know the foamCalc output. But if it prints the information to the screen, it also can be printed into a file. Probably your shell has all the needed tools already installed:

If you want the output of foamCalc into a file instead of the screen:
"foamCalc someoptionsorparameters > outputfile"

If you want only lines with a certain content of the foamCalc output to be printed into a file:
"foamCalc someoptionsorparameters | grep selectioncontent > outputfile"

Of course there might be better solutions for your case! But these probably would be my first attempts.

Thank you for your reply. this was actually really helpful. But I still need to have the output in csv format.

[cgerrity]

Originally Posted by khalifa

Thank you for your reply. this is actually helpful but unfortunately I have too many time steps and therefore files and its almost impossible to use this. Thanks anyways

You could write a bash script to concatenate them all using a for loop. Or if you don't like bash, you (perhaps inelegantly) could print all of the "cat foo1 foo2.... > foofinished" using python and copy paste it into terminal.