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Old   June 30, 2022, 07:10
Default Trying to obtaining the surface forces
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Hi,

I'm trying to obtain the output of forces (normal and tangential) for the whole surface of the object around which the flow occurs. I added this to functions in controlDict:

Code:
forces
    {
        type            forces;
        libs            ("libforces.so");
        patches
        (
            wall_001
        );
		CofR            (0 0 0);
		
		rho            rhoInf;

		log            true;

		rhoInf            1;

    }
The analysis finished successfully and I can open the results in ParaView but there are no variables associated with forces and I've noticed a long output with repeating errors:

Code:
File "...\CfdConsoleProcess.py", line 98, in readStdout
new_text = self.stdoutHook(text)
File "...\Solve\TaskPanelCfdSolverControl.py", line 290, in gotOutputLines
self.solver_runner.process_output(lines)
File "...\Solve\CfdRunnableFoam.py", line 263, in process_output
f = self.forces[self.in_forces_section]
KeyError: 'forces'
Do you know what can be wrong here? Do I need to include some additional libraries?
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