[Greg Givogue]

Hi Everyone,

I'm relatively new with OpenFOAM and C++ programming. I'd like to modify the Forces.C file to include the following calc;

vector CP = sum(Md^(vf+pf))/sum(vf+pf);

I believe I have to update the forces.H file as well to define CP... but I'm not sure how.

When I ran wmake in the forces folder I got:

forces/forces.C:469: warning: unused variable ‘CP’
make: *** [Make/linux64GccDPOpt/forces.o] Error 1

Thanks for the help!

Greg

[akidess]

A "Warning" is not the same as an "Error". Ergo, you didn't include all messages from the compiler. Anyway, it's fine to define the variable in the .C file. I believe your problem is that "^" is not the operator you'd expect - use the Foam::pow() function instead.

[Greg Givogue]

Thanks for the response. I tried a couple things and now I'm left with the following questions;

1) How do I declare CP within the scope of the write command at ln 374?
2) It doesn't seem to like my equation for CP at ln 467. I think it's the divide (/) that it doesn't like because I'm trying to divide 2 vector quantities. I think ^ is ok in this context. How would I use Foam:ow()?

Thanks so much for your help! Apologies for the simple questions but I'm just starting to learn C++.
Greg

[Greg Givogue]

Here are the files...forces.C

wmake error message.gz

[pablodecastillo]

you are declarating CP just in calcForcesMoment() function, if you want to use in other functions you need to declarate at the class (forces.h), or send like an argument