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Old   May 19, 2014, 08:23
Default Calculating heat flux in OpenFOAM
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Hi

I am trying to develop a custom boundary condition in OpenFOAM. The boundary condition value is calculated from a polynomial expression written in terms of the heat flux at the boundary. I am using the reactingFoam solver.

Can anyone perhaps tell me how exactly I could access the necessary variables (e.g. alphaEff) at the boundary to calculate the heat flux at the boundary?

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Old   May 19, 2014, 11:15
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Likely by using the thermo class, using something like this:
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const fluidThermo& thermo_(mesh.lookupObject<fluidThermo>("thermophysicalProperties"))
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