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Old   March 26, 2009, 07:49
Default transforming a function defined on mesh().points() into a pointScalarField
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Hello Foamers,

I am new to programming in OpenFOAM and I have created a function which is gives a certain value for each of the points of the mesh (mesh().points()) and I would to transform it in a pointScalarField so that I could see the values of the function with paraview. How would you advise me to do that?

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Virginie,

Perhaps this would be helpful:

Code:
#include "pointMesh.H"
#include "pointFields.H"
#include "fixedValuePointPatchFields.H"

        // Instantiate a pointMesh object
        pointMesh pMesh(mesh);

        pointScalarField pValues
        (
            IOobject
            (
                "pValues",
                runTime.timeName(),
                mesh,
                IOobject::NO_READ,
                IOobject::AUTO_WRITE
            ),
            pMesh,
            dimensionedVector("scalar", dimless, 0.0),
            "zeroGradient"
        );

        pValues.internalField() = myPointField;
    
        pValues.write();
where myPointField is a field that is points-big.

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Sorry... Cut'n'Paste error:

dimensionedVector("scalar", dimless, 0.0)

should be
dimensionedScalar("scalar", dimless, 0.0)

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Thank you a lot Sandeep.
It works perfectly fine.

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Old   March 31, 2009, 11:30
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Hi,

I am a beginner, I am going to read OpenFOAM code and modify it for purpose of simulating aluminum extrusion. I think maybe OpenFOAM can mesh complex geometry already, but I didn't try. So I think the first step is to modify the constitutive model. When I read the code, there are so many files. I think I should understand the whole structure of the software.But it is so big. So where can I start with? Anybody can give me some advice?

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