[uosilos]

I want to perform this change in file constant/cloudProperties
From:

submodels
{
    localInteractionCoeffs
    {
        patches
        (
            "(WALL_.*|INLET)"
            {
                type rebound;
                e    1;
                mu   1;
            }
            bottom
            {
                type rebound;
                e    1;
                mu   1;
            }
        );
    }
}

To:

submodels
{
    localInteractionCoeffs
    {
        patches
        (
            "(WALL_.*|INLET)"
            {
                type rebound;
                e    1;
                mu   1;
            }
            bottom
            {
                type escape;
            }
        );
    }
}

What of these tools is appropriate and how to use it? I can't make it work

[Tobermory]

Yes, this is a little tricky isn't it, since the entry you want to change is buried inside the patches() list and foamDictionary will only go down as far as the list name, patches. It won't (as far as I am aware) allow you to edit a specific entry in the list.

I think that what you will need to do is to specify the full (updated) patches list (i.e. incl. the ones that are not changing), eg something like:

foamDictionary -entry submodels.localInteractionCoeffs.patches -set "WALL_.* {type rebound; e 1; mu 1;}  INLET {type rebound; e  1; mu 1;}  bottom {type escape; }"  constant/cloudProperties

Note that I expanded out the "(WALL_.*|INLET)" part since otherwise you will have repeated quotes - you might be able to get around that, but perhaps you can see the way now. Hope that helps.

[uosilos]

Thanks a lot!!!


With a little change but it works fine