How to add the values of any volscalarfield variable in every timestep
 

I am quite new to OpenFOAM and I would like to know if there is anything we can do in code to fetch the values of volscalarfield variable in all the time steps as it happens with the other filed values like k Omega etc. I tried Info statement but that method prints the values on screen but I would like to have it in timesteps so that I can see them in paraview.

The likelihood that I am only partially understanding the question you raise is high.

Let me try to give an answer despite of this.

Typically additional volScalarFields are defined in createFields.H. By setting appropriate write attributes, the volScalarField is written to file at every time step.

Yeh, you understood my questions correctly.I am trying to change createfields.H file of my solver but I am not able to compile it successfully. I tried some of the methods earlier posted on the forum. Do you know any method to compile the modified code successfully?

Again, not sure what information you already have and what is missing.

Typically, however, solvers are compiled using the wmake (shell around make) guided by the Make/files and Make/options files. It suffices to look how standard solvers are compiled.

Hello,
I managed to compile the code but I have another problem now

I get the file of the newly added field in the time steps folder but don't get the values in the timestep folders. It just shows the values that I mentioned in the 0 folder.

for curiosity, I used Info statement to print the values of the newly added field on-screen, and there it shows the expected values. but then why I am not getting them in timestep folders? compile the cod but

Again, not sure.

How do you declare variable in createFields.H ?

Info<< "Reading field p\n" << endl;
volScalarField p
(
IOobject
(
"p",
runTime.timeName(),
mesh,
IOobject::MUST_READ,
IOobject::AUTO_WRITE
),
mesh
);

Info<< "Reading field U\n" << endl;
volVectorField U
(
IOobject
(
"U",
runTime.timeName(),
mesh,
IOobject::MUST_READ,
IOobject::AUTO_WRITE
),
mesh
);

volScalarField gammabc
(
IOobject
(
"gammabc",
runTime.timeName(),
mesh,
IOobject::NO_READ,
IOobject::AUTO_WRITE
),
mesh (I have also tried adding dimensions here)
);

#include "createPhi.H"


label pRefCell = 0;
scalar pRefValue = 0.0;
setRefCell(p, simple.dict(), pRefCell, pRefValue);
mesh.setFluxRequired(p.name());


singlePhaseTransportModel laminarTransport(U, phi);

autoPtr<incompressible::turbulenceModel> turbulence
(
incompressible::turbulenceModel::New(U, phi, laminarTransport)
);

#include "createMRF.H"
#include "createFvOptions.H"



This is my createFields.H file

Looks fine. Should write to file at every instance other fields are written to file.

Yes fields are getting written but the newly defined field is not getting written as expected.

But my log file shows the expected values of new field gammabc

You can see the part of my log file below


Starting time loop

wallShearStress wallShearStress:
processing all wall patches

Reading set description:
line

Time = 1

smoothSolver: Solving for Ux, Initial residual = 1, Final residual = 0.0929271, No Iterations 6
smoothSolver: Solving for Uy, Initial residual = 1, Final residual = 0.0846516, No Iterations 2
GAMG: Solving for p, Initial residual = 1, Final residual = 0.0981968, No Iterations 28
time step continuity errors : sum local = 0.000144915, global = -3.05636e-06, cumulative = -3.05636e-06
gammabcdimensions [0 0 0 0 0 0 0];


internalField nonuniform List<scalar>
26820
(
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

and this is how I have defined gammabc in the model



template<class BasicTurbulenceModel>
tmp<volScalarField> SABC<BasicTurbulenceModel>::gammabc
(
const volScalarField& Term1,
const volScalarField& Term2,
const volScalarField& nubc,
const volScalarField& Rev,
const volScalarField& ReTheta
) const
{

return
(
1 - exp(-sqrt(Term1)-sqrt(Term2))
);
}

No idea.

How about setting your new field to constant value of 1. and check whether that is writing. Just guessing here.

I can try this.
But one question. Do we need to make any changes in the .C file of the solver (simpleFoam.C) after adding new fields in createFields.H file?

Nope, or better.

You should see that createFields.H is included in simpleFoam.C.

This means that after every change in createFields.C, the file simpleFoam.C should be re-compiled. The dependency list in the makefile system should take of that. Else you can you the unix touch utility to force the recompilation of the simpleFoam.C file