[sprinter]

Hello Foamers,

I am inspecting the chtMultiRegionFoam -> multiRegionHeater Openfoam-5 tutorial case. I am interested in the following quantities
1) mass flow average temperature at the 'topAir' region's maxX patch.
2) to calculate heat flux i want to calculate the mass flow averaged enthalpy flux at the 'topAir' region's maxX patch.

In ther newer version i.e. OF5, I checked with the "postProcess -list" command which shows patchAverage and patchIntegrate and other relavant functionObjects but no such patchMassflowAverage functionObjects.

Any help regarding this with the commands will be helpful.

Thank you.

[tomf]

Hi,

I would think something along the lines of this should work:

surfaceFieldValue1
{
    type            surfaceFieldValue;
    libs            ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");

    log             true;
    writeControl    writeTime;
    writeFields     true;

    surfaceFormat   none;
    regionType      patch;
    name            maxX;

    operation       weightedAreaAverage;
    weightField     phi;
    fields          (h);
}

You may need to adapt some entires for your particular case.

Regards,
Tom