Hello, Can anyone tell me h
 

Hello,

Can anyone tell me how to the pressure gradient normal to the local wall surface? I have caculated pressure gradient at the first node away from surface. However, I don't know how to get the information of local normal vectors to the wall. Thanks

p.boundaryField().snGrad();
 

p.boundaryField()[patchID].snGrad();

Which is generally zero for walls.

You seem to want to extrapolate the pressure gradient. To do this you will need:

volVectorField gradp = fvc::grad(p);
vectorField nearSurfaceGradP = gradp.boundaryField()[patchID].patchInternalField();

const vectorField& surfaceNormal = mesh.boundary()[patchID].nf();

scalarField gradpWallNormal = nearSurfaceGradP & surfaceNormal;

Hi all, I tried this code a
 

Hi all,

I tried this code above to calculate the gradient of a tensor component in normal direction to the wall...

label wallPatchID = mesh.boundaryMesh().findPatchID("wall");
volScalarField S11 = StressTensor.component(tensor::XX);

volVectorField gradS11 = fvc::grad(S11);
vectorField nearSurfaceGradS11 = gradS11.boundaryField()[wallPatchID].patchInternalField();
scalarField gradS11WallNormal = nearSurfaceGradS11 & surfaceNormal;

Compiles without errors. But I get an error message if I try to run the case.

#0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam:http://www.cfd-online.com/OpenFOAM_D...part/proud.gifstream&) in "/data/home/openfoam/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#1 Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) in "/data/home/openfoam/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#2 ?? in "/lib64/tls/libc.so.6"
#3 Foam::tmp<foam::field<foam::innerproduct<foam::vec tor<double>, Foam::Vector<double> >::type> > Foam::operator&<foam::vector<double>, Foam::Vector<double> >(Foam::
UList<foam::vector<double> > const&, Foam::UList<foam::vector<double> > const&) in "/data/home/openfoam/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/lami nar
PTT"

It looks like having problems with the vector product in the last line?

Kerstin

any quick post processing tool to compute pressure gradients in the domain
 

Hi,

Do we have any option/tool in openfoam
like a post processing tool to compute pressure gradients in three directions in a 3D domain?

Thanks, regards