[vishwa]

Hi,
I would like to do something along the lines of probe as described in pitzdaily tutorial. However, I would like to save the data along a surface and not at certains coordinates.

I modified the controlDict as shown below and am getting an error

ill defined primitiveEntry starting at keyword 'probeLocations' on line 64 and ending at line 85

The portion of controlDict is pasted here for your reference

functions
{
probes1
    {
        type            probes;
        functionObjectLibs ("libsampling.so");
        enabled         true;
        outputControl   timeStep;
        outputInterval  1;
        probeLocations
        (
            midplane
        {
        type plane;
        basePoint (0 -0.086 0.00046);
        normalVector(0 0 1);
        }
        );

        fields
        (
            p
        );
    }    

        
}

can anybody help me with fixing this problem

Regards,
Vishwa

[vishwa]

After digging a little bit further, i found this link

http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...ionobject.html

and changed the controlDict accordingly.. It now reads

functions
{
probes1
    {
    type            surfaces;
        functionObjectLibs ("libsampling.so");
        //enabled         true;
        outputControl   timeStep;
        outputInterval  1;
    surfaceFormat raw;
    interpolationScheme cellPointFace; 
    
        fields
        (
            U
        );     


    surfaces
        (
            midplane
        {
        type plane;
        basePoint (0 -0.086 0.00046);
        normalVector(0 0 1);
        }
        );
        
    }

Now i get this error

ill defined primitiveEntry starting at keyword 'surfaces' on line 73 and ending at line 90

file: /home/dagarshali/OpenFOAM/dagarshali-1.6.x/CIJR/system/controlDict at line 90.

From function primitiveEntry::readEntry(const dictionary&, Istream&)
in file db/dictionary/primitiveEntry/primitiveEntryIO.C at line 210.

FOAM exiting

Any help?

Regards,
Vishwa

[vishwa]

playing further with the surfaces, I found in one of the tutorials which uses surfaces in the controlDict (sloshingtank2d3d0F), here they use a patch and not a plane. I changed it to patch in my controlDict file and the code starts to run. But, I would like to save the data on the midplane,which hasn't been defined in the boundary in the constant folder. I need this so that I can make a movie of the vector fields. I am pretty new to Openfoam and still learning the ropes.

Any suggestions please...

Best regards,
Vishwa

[vishwa]

finally figured it out....

I had typed normalVector(0 0 1) ..there should have been a space between normalVector and paranthesis...normalVector (0 0 1)


Regards,
Vishwa