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Dear Foamers,

I want to make a simple dam break test with a lifting gate. The gate is lifted with a velocity of 0.5 m/s at Z+ direction. I was wondering if it is possible to realize this without dynamic mesh.



The gate could be implemented as a zero thickness wall or baffle in OpenFOAM, the problem is that, how to "move" this baffle according to the lifting velocity without using dynamic mesh, since all we need is to set some fixed internal faces as walls.

The first idea comes to my mind is that: at every 0.1 sec, use the "createBaffles" command to update the gate position. But the baffle can only be created once at the beginning, do we have any method to change these faces that consist of the gate baffle?

Any idea?

Best regards,

David