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Dear Foamers,

I am simulating a wind turbine in a wind tunnel, and I am performing a LES simulation using the Smagorinsky model and the pisoFoam solver.

I am also averaging the velocity, pressure and sub-grid scale kinetic energy ( p U k) by the use of the fieldAverage library.

While everything works fine for p and U, I cannot average the k and I get the following error:

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: 
Requested field k does not exist in the database


    From function Foam::fieldAverage::initialize()
    in file fieldAverage/fieldAverage/fieldAverage.C at line 104.

FOAM exiting

If I run the simulation without averaging the k, everything runs fine, but I do not get any k file inside the time folders.

If I switch LES model to oneEqEddy f.ex., then everything runs smooth, I get all the averages including k and the k is written in the output time folders.

My question is: is there a way to force OF to write and average the k value when using the Smagorinsky model?

I have tried to use the swak4foam utility but did not get any luck.

Thanks in advance for your help!
Fabio