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Originally Posted by villet View Post
This may look a bit tricky, but you can get the y-coordinate (scalarField) at cell center like this:

mesh.C().component(vector::Y)

or

mesh.C().component(1)

so use it in the place of "y" in your equation. Basically "mesh.C()" is a vector field of cell center coordinates. I'm sure after this it's easier to look for more examples.

Ville
what if I want to use command mesh.C() in other source files? I tried it but the compiler keeps telling me that I have to declare mesh first. So how am I gonna access mesh in other source file and declare it?
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