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Old   June 20, 2019, 13:05
Default Mapping bulk temperature of channel and moutend cylinder flow cases into field
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Hi fellow foamers,

Problem description:
I'm trying to represent the non-dimensional temperature


\theta = \frac{T(x,y) - T_{wall}}{\overline{T}(x) - T_{wall}} ,


throughout a 2D channel in Paraview, in which \overline{T}(x) is the bulk temperature for the transverse surface positioned in the x longitudinal coordinate. T_{wall} in the present case is constant.
The bulk temperature for a section, A, in a given longitudinal coordinate is given by


\overline{T} = \frac{\int_A \rho u T \, dA}{\int_A \rho u \, dA} ,


where \rho is the fluid density and u the velocity component normal to section A.

Achievements so far:
So far I've been using swak4foam's funkyDoCalc coupled with a bash script to cycle through the longitudinal coordinate in order to create an array of the bulk temperature along the channel.
The swak4foam script:
Code:
s1
{
type swakExpression;
valueType surface;
verbose true;
expression "sum(T*rho*Sf()&U)/sum(rho*Sf()&U)";
accumulations (
  average
);
surfaceName x1; 
surface {
  type plane;
  source cells;
  surfaceTupe searchablePlate;
  planeType pointAndNormal;
  pointAndNormalDict {
    basePoint (0 1e-6 1e-6);//the bash script uses sed to change the x coordinate of the basepoint
    normalVector (1 0 0); 
    interpolate true;
    }   
  }
}
After running the funkyDoCalc in the cycle the output is then appended to a file.
Up to this point I have an array of the bulk temperature throughout the longitudinal coordinate.


Current obstacle/issue:
I want to map this bulk temperature array to a scalar field, in which T(y)|_x=\overline{T}|_x, i.e., for a given longitudinal position, x, the transverse temperature is set to the correspondent bulk temperature for any transverse position.
After obtaining this bulk temperature field I could then use the Calculator function in Paraview to determine the non-dimensional temperature field \theta.



All help is welcomed.
Thank you.
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