funkyDoCalc
 

I haven't been able to find mention of this, but does anyone know if you can get funkyDoCalc to output to a file like a functionObject? It seems like I need to modify the utility but I'd like to know if anyone has played with it.

To my knowledge no. But as I usually say: I only wrote that thing. This doesn't know that I know all its capabilities (I'm not even sure if I use it properly) ;)

No. It can't. Until know it was sufficient for my needs to parse the output with a script. But of course I see the usefulness of writing files

I know of no such effort. And I currently have enough on my plate so I won't be doing anything in this direction in the immediate future.

Should you successfully add the capability to write files it would be nice if you shared it. Preferably through mercurial-bundles (that way all the attributions are preserved). Have a look at the Development section in the README

I've made some mods that allow filenames to be written. Right now I have it requiring the post processing dictionary (named postProcDict in this example) begin referenced in the controlDict like:
This may not be the most elegant way of doing this but works for me. postProcDict is formatted as the usual function objects. The utility (creatively named funkyDoCalcWrite for development purposes) is then called in much the same way:

I haven't used mercurial to make any changes, I downloaded the SVN version as per the instructions on the wiki to get the release version. Would you like a copy of my version to see if its something you would like include?

That sounds a bit like execFlowFunctionObjects that comes with OpenFOAM (or did I misunderstand the description?)

Could you check that?

Usually I'd say " 'svn diff' against the downloaded version", but yours is a separate, new utility so the relevant files would be OK (just don't want to go through the whole sources to find differences. Preferred is still "hg bundle" (as described in the README) as it helps me keeping track of the contributors

Ha, I wasn't even aware of execFlowFunctionObjects! I tried it but it doesn't support my thermophysical model by default (but that modification is trivial), so having a duplicate utility doesn't seem to be a good idea. I'll just keep this to myself.

Didn't want to discourage anyone from contributing.

BTW: if your termophysical-model is in a separate library you could try loading it by adding it to the libs-list in the controlDict

Thanks for the advice! One last question that is related to the nuances. I am running my utility on cases solved by dieselFoam and dieselEngineFoam. I've noticed that the files written for the dieselFoam case show entries for all the time directories, while the dieselEngineFoam case only has output for the last time directory.

All my expressions are swakExpressions, and I'm using my funkyDoCalcWrite which builds on funkyDoCalc. Looking at the code, it appears that there is something going on in this snippet:
This isn't much different than the execFlowObjects code. The mesh for the dieselEngineFoam is changing in time (compression and expansion) using various types of engineMesh. When using funkyDoCalc the output is given for all time directories. Any help in determining how I can get proper output to files?

No idea. My first guess is that the news about the changed mesh doesn't reach the functionObjects.

Some questions come to mind:
- how does "no output" manifest itself? The time-loop runs through, no errors but also no output?
- what kinds of functionObjects do you have? Only swak-ones? And if yes: which ones? Could you try it with standard-functionObjects (like the one the samples) to see if this is a general problem or just my stuff?

In answer to your questions:

1) "No output" means the utility runs fine through all the time directories and I get results output to the screen. In this case I am calculating the mass average of a particular species in the domain. For all time directories except the last one, I see this type of output:

When processing the last time directory, I get an additional output

The numbers are correct. When I look at the file created in $FOAM_CASE/swakExpression_SpeciesSum/$FIRST_TIME/SpeciesSum, I get a formatted file:

390 is the last time directory in the series. Essentially only the information from the last time directory is being written to the file.

2) I am currently only using swakExpressions, where
and using all accumulators (while I'm still testing)

I also tried just running execFlowFunctionObjects (with both swak and regular function objects) and I was greeted by the error:

Right after the thermophysical models are loaded (I am using libreactionThermophysicalModels.so). I'm trying to find a regular function object I can compare output with; once I find something I'll post it.

EDIT: It seems this isn't strictly isolated to swak objects, as I ran execFlowFunctionObjects on the icoFoam/cavity case with libFieldFunctionObject and I got a result similar to the above: only the information from the last time directory is output.

I probably should have asked the following: is there a way to control the interval that swak objects will output to file when they are used at runTime? This won't help with old cases I need to post-process, but will at least let me run new cases and have the information I need.

Thanks for looking into this!

Solution wasn't what I expected
 

So it turns out there was one additional difference between the two cases. In system/controlDict:
should be used, not
In retrospect, only having the last timestep's data written out was a huge clue I initially overlooked. Since I'm executing a funtionObjectList, it will use the parameters supplied in controlDict, which dictacte when execution should start.

hi
how to use funkyDoCalc command?
I typed it as:funkyDoCalc flowInlet
but it gives an error:
what is wrong?

Examples can be found here:

swak4Foam/Examples/other/angledDuctImplicitTransient/testCalculations