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Old   November 4, 2021, 17:14
Default Calculating bubble volume in rising bubble simulation
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I'm performing a rising bubble simulation and I'd like to calculate the bubble volume at each writeInterval. I went through some threads and programming guides and came up with a rough code. However I'm not sure how to implement that. I tried creating a function object from a copy of 'vorticity' and changed things around, but the compiler doesn't recognize mesh and alpha1 within the code. Can someone guide in this regard?

Also is there a way I can have the bubble volume written out in a separate text file/csv with just two columns containing time and bubble volume instead of writing it out within the time directory at each writeInterval?

Code:
scalar vol;
scalar vol_tot_air = 0.0;
scalar r_ori = 0.0007505;
scalar h_ori = 0.001;
scalar vol_ori = 3.14*r_ori*r_ori*h_ori;

forAll(mesh.C(), celli) //Loop through all cells
	{
		if (alpha1[celli] > 0.5)
			{
				vol = alpha1[celli]*mesh.V()[celli];
			}
			else
			{
				vol = 0;
			}
		vol_tot_air += vol;
	}
	
scalar vol_final_air = 2*3.14*vol_tot_air;
scalar vol_bubble = vol_final_air - vol_ori;
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