[sharifi]

Hi,


i'm looking to use the surface sampling function in OpenFOAM to sample some field on a defined cylinder. Imagine you have a pipe with D=100 mm along x-axis mm and you need to sample pressure on a cylinder surface with D=50 mm along x-axis. It should be possible to define a .stl and sample on it.
Does any one have any experience about that?

OpenFOAM finction for sampling over a plane:

SurfaceSampling
{

type surfaces;
outputControl timeStep;
outputInterval 80;
surfaceFormat vtk;

fields
(
p

);

surfaces
(

plane1
{
type plane; //is stl possible????
basePoint (0 0 0);
normalVector (0 1 0);

}

[alexeym]

Hi,

If you open $FOAM_UTILITIES/postProcessing/sampling/sample/sampleDict, go to line #281, you find an example. Line #301 can also be relevant.