[CDVS]

Hi. I recently installed to my laptop Ubunto 20 and after I run setFields, it run, but I tried to see the alpha.water from nano, to see the change, but it didn't response so I couldn't see the list of numbers, it's not possible to see the list, the weird is that I executed the solver and it run ok but I couldn't see this file, and I tried to read the file on windows and this can be open but in the list appear null value. It never happened to me on windows, can someone tell me why? by the way I'm using OpenFoam foundation 7.

[dundu]

Hi,


Same problem, this is how it appears in my alpha.liquid once I have run setFields:

FoamFile:
{
version 2.0;
format binary;
class volScalarField;
arch "LSB;label=32;scalar=64";
location "0";
object alpha.liquid;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

dimensions [0 0 0 0 0 0 0];


internalField nonuniform List<scalar>
6500
(^@^@^@^@^@^@�?^@^@^@^@^@^@�?^@^@^@^@^@^@�?^@^@^@^ @^@^@�?^@^@^............ etc....


boundaryField
{
leftWall
{
type zeroGradient;
}



[...]

My setFieldsDict:


defaultFieldValues
(
volScalarFieldValue alpha.liquid 0
volScalarFieldValue T 300
);

regions
(
boxToCell
{
box (0 0 -1) (0.01 0.01 1);
fieldValues
(
volScalarFieldValue alpha.liquid 1
volScalarFieldValue T 970
);
}
);


Did you solve your problem in between?



Thank you in advance,
Max

[dundu]

In conrolDict, make sure the writeFormat is ascii and not binary. It solved the problem.

[Ship Designer]

The alpha field can also be visualized for inspection with ParaView. I prefer ascii format with compression over binary format for two reasons:

1. Ascii with compression takes up less disk space than binary files.
2. If needed, the file can be decompressed and its content is still human-readable.

Some utilities will crash though because they can't read compressed files. The stitchMesh utility in Foundation OpenFOAM for example cannot read compressed meshPhi files.