[Ebrahim]

Hello,

I need to generate a number of sample points inside a grid cell. Is there any utility / function in OpenFOAM which can do this for me? Or do you have any experience in this matter?

Thanks,
Ebrahim

[WildeCat]

Dear Ebrahim,

you can easily sample along lines, surfaces or boundaries with the sample utility. sample is executed by running "sample" in terminal. I leave below a link describing how sample works and anotherone to a "sampleDict" file.

http://www.openfoam.com/documentatio...ide/sample.php

https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM...ple/sampleDict

Good luck

[frubicle93]

Hello,

Did you manage to find a good solution to this? I also have a need to randomly (uniformly) sample points within cells to perform a Monte Carlo integration.

The best way I can think of is to find a minimal box that encloses the cell, and sample over the box with an accept/reject policy to get a list of points in the cell.