[nelsonka]

Hi,
I'm trying to analyse forces related to flow through pipe (for further usage in FSI). I'm using pimpleFoam. For such purpose I'm using forces function object (https://www.openfoam.com/documentati...es-forces.html), however the only result I'm obtaining is the force integrated over entire surface, which is saved in the .dat file. Is there a way to use this function object to calculate force vector field for every mesh element on surface and write it in mesh itself during runtime (similar to vorticity or wallShearStress)?

[Yann]

Hello,

Yes there is a way:

// Store and write volume field representations of forces and moments
writeFields yes;

Cheers,
Yann