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Old   January 11, 2017, 17:20
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dear all formers
i have a problem to calculate the mass flow rate on a patch!
i saw a lot of threads about this problem but unfortunately non of them worked for me!!
The way that i tried, was using the below comment in terminal:
patchIntegrate phi inlet -latestTime

but the OF says it doesn't work on this version (my OF version is 4.1)
so you should use postProcess -func

I use this comment in terminal:
postProcess -func phi -latestTime

but it shows me the below error!!

Create time

Create mesh for time = 0.0101001

--> FOAM Warning :
From function static bool Foam::functionObjectList::readFunctionObject(const Foam::string&, Foam::dictionary&, Foam::HashSet<>&, const Foam::word&)
in file db/functionObjects/functionObjectList/functionObjectList.C at line 245
Cannot find functionObject file phi
Time = 0.0101001

Reading fields:


Executing functionObjects

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could you please tell me how to calculate mass flow rate on inlet and outlet?
thank you
majid
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Try to use the #includeFunc flowRatePatch(name=inlet)
this works for me in OF 4.1
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Try to use the #includeFunc flowRatePatch(name=inlet)
this works for me in OF 4.1
Hi,
Can you elaborate a little more by what you meant by this?

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And he talk about the function flowRatePatch in

/etc/caseDicts/postProcessing/flowRate/flowRatePatch
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In the controlDict:
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#includeFunc nameofthefunction
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Alright! Thanks, I'll try this.
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dear all formers
i have a problem to calculate the mass flow rate on a patch!
i saw a lot of threads about this problem but unfortunately non of them worked for me!!
The way that i tried, was using the below comment in terminal:
patchIntegrate phi inlet -latestTime

but the OF says it doesn't work on this version (my OF version is 4.1)
so you should use postProcess -func

I use this comment in terminal:
postProcess -func phi -latestTime

but it shows me the below error!!

Create time

Create mesh for time = 0.0101001

--> FOAM Warning :
From function static bool Foam::functionObjectList::readFunctionObject(const Foam::string&, Foam::dictionary&, Foam::HashSet<>&, const Foam::word&)
in file db/functionObjects/functionObjectList/functionObjectList.C at line 245
Cannot find functionObject file phi
Time = 0.0101001

Reading fields:


Executing functionObjects

End

could you please tell me how to calculate mass flow rate on inlet and outlet?
thank you
majid

Just for your interrest, the correct usage of the command is:



Code:
postProcess -func 'patchIntegrate(name=outlet,phi)' -latestTime
I still don't know why patchIntegrate and flowRatePatch show different results for the flux. Can anyone elaborate?



According to this page

http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Co...unctionObjects

patchIntegrate does the following:


\overline{\phi}=\frac{\sum_i \phi_i A_i}{\sum_i A_i}


However, flowRatePatch does show the theoretical (analytical) result but patchIntegrate gives a value 5 orders of magnitude lower.


Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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