[uosilos]

Hey foamers,


I am developing a customized code for lagrangian particles patchInteraction model.


I want to include a variable read from the activePressureForceBaffleVelocity BC, which is called openFraction_.


How can I call it from localInteraction.C??


Since now I have tried with:
U.mesh.boundary()[patchi].openFraction_();
U.patch().boundaryMesh()[patchi].openFraction_();

without success.


Any solution to his would be appreciated

[JulioPieri]

I don't know the proper way to do that, but can you access it like other dicts are called? something like

this->coeffDict().getOrDefault("openFraction", 0.001)

then you change the underlined text to your 0/U.patchName file?

[uosilos]

I think that is the way to read variables from the own model file, but not from other locations like a BC...

[uosilos]

By doing U.boundaryField()[patchID]:

type            activePressureForceBaffleVelocity;
cyclicPatch     baffleCyclic_half0;
orientation     1;
openingTime     0.005;
maxOpenFractionDelta 0.1;
openFraction    0;
minThresholdValue -3.78e+06;
forceBased      0;
value           uniform (0 0 0);

Output for entry U.boundaryField()[patchID].type() works fine, but not for the other variables since they are part of the derived fvPatchField, written by:

void Foam::activePressureForceBaffleVelocityFvPatchVectorField::
write(Ostream& os) const
{
    fvPatchVectorField::write(os);
      writeEntry(os, "cyclicPatch", cyclicPatchName_);
...

Any solution??