[aerogt3]

Hello all,


I am trying to use swak4foam to calculate a velocity field (based on position in the mesh), and this works great! But then I try to add that velocity field to the UMean field calculate by OpenFOAM 2.4.0, using the following controlDict entry:

    UCalc
    {
        after  $monStart;
        type expressionField;
        outputControlMode  outputTime;
        outputInterval     $endTime;
        fieldName UCalc;
        dimension [ 0 1 -1 0 0 0 0 ];
        expression "UMean + Urot";
        autowrite true;
    }

This gives the following errors:

Creating expression field Urot ... type:volVectorField
[13]
[13]
[13] --> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
[13]  Parser Error for driver FieldValueExpressionDriver at "1.1-5" :"field UMean not existing or of wrong type"
"UMean + Urot"
  ^^^^^
--|    

Context of the error:


- Driver constructed from scratch
  Evaluating expression "UMean + Urot"
[13]
[13]
[13]     From function parsingValue
[13]     in file lnInclude/CommonValueExpressionDriverI.H at line 1189.
[13]
FOAM parallel run exiting

I am bit confused what is going wrong, as UMean definitely exists for all timesteps. Perhaps I need to load UMean within the controlDict entry, before swak4foam has access to it? Any ideas?

[wyldckat]

Quick questions:

1. Where and how did you define "UMean"?
2. And is it "UMean" or "Umean"?

[aerogt3]

Originally Posted by wyldckat

Quick questions:

1. Where and how did you define "UMean"?
2. And is it "UMean" or "Umean"?

Thanks for the reply. UMean is created by the open foam function object fieldAverage.

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: Sorry, but only today did I managed to come back to your problem.

OK, I believe that the problem is because you need to use a function object that loads the field after it's saved. For example:

readFields
{
    // Where to load it from (if not already in solver)
    functionObjectLibs ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");

    type            readFields;
    fields          (UMean);
}

You will need to add this before the function object you provided.

The other solution is to use swak4Foam's own function object for calculating the "UMean" field.

[fatirishman53]

Originally Posted by wyldckat

Quick answer: Sorry, but only today did I managed to come back to your problem.

OK, I believe that the problem is because you need to use a function object that loads the field after it's saved. For example:

readFields
{
    // Where to load it from (if not already in solver)
    functionObjectLibs ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");

    type            readFields;
    fields          (UMean);
}

You will need to add this before the function object you provided.

The other solution is to use swak4Foam's own function object for calculating the "UMean" field.

I was hoping that this would fix my problem as well, but it did not for either OF 2.3 or 3.0

Here is what I am working with:

...
functions
{
    cubeUx
    {
        type expressionField;
        dimension [0 3 -3 0 0 0 0];
        fieldName "cubeUx";
        expression "pow(U.x,3)";
        verbose true;
        autowrite false;
        outputControl timeStep;
    }
    
    fieldAverage1
    {
        type            fieldAverage;
        functionObjectLibs ( "libfieldFunctionObjects.so" );
        enabled         true;
        outputControl   outputTime;

        fields
        (
            U
            {
                mean        on;
                prime2Mean  on;
                base        time;
            }

            p
            {
                mean        on;
                prime2Mean  on;
                base        time;
            }

            cubeUx
            {
                mean on;
                prime2Mean off;
                base time;
            }
        );
    }

    readFields
    {
        functionObjectLibs  ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");
        type        readFields;
        fields      (cubeUxMean);
    }

    skewnessX
    {
        type expressionField;
        dimension [0 3 -3 0 0 0 0];
        fieldName "skewnessX";
        expression "(cubeUxMean-3*UMean.x*UPrime2Mean.xx-pow(UMean.x,3))/pow(UPrime2Mean.xx,1.5)";
        verbose true;
        autowrite true;
        outputControl timeStep;
    }
}

libs (
    "libOpenFOAM.so"
    "libsimpleFunctionObjects.so"
    "libsimpleSwakFunctionObjects.so"
    "libswakFunctionObjects.so"
    );

[david112]

Hi,

rigth now I have the same problem. readFields and also reading the Field with the solver does not solve that in OpenFOAM 4.1

[fatirishman53]

Originally Posted by david112

Hi,

rigth now I have the same problem. readFields and also reading the Field with the solver does not solve that in OpenFOAM 4.1

Tiam addresses this issue here:
https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/op...tml#post616247