[RygeltheXVI]

Hail,

I am new to openFoam so please forgive my ignorance:

I have experimental data for the profile of U on an inlet.
I am happy/capable of making a matlab file which will interpolate this data as may be required to match my mesh, and to generate the velocity file for my case.

What I don't know is how to specify the velocity profile on the inlet. I imagine that I can edit my velocity file to use fixed values on the inlet patch rather than a uniform value but I don't know how to do so.

eg rather than
boundaryField
{
inlet
{
type fixedValue;
value uniform (1 0 0);
}
...
}

that I can have something like:
{
inlet
{
type fixedValue;
value nonuniform List<vector>
<number of faces patch intel is composed of> \\where I grab this
\\ value from the boundary file after running blockmesh
(
(triplets of experimental/interpolated values in some specific order)
...
)
}
...
}

Am I on the correct track? And how do I determine the order to put the triplets to match the faces to my data?

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers

[grjmell]

I am also looking to do this. Can someone help?

[chegdan]

Not sure if you answered this one yet, but you could try the

timeVaryingMappedFixedValue

boundary condition. search through the forum for this one or look at the source in

~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/src/finiteVolume/fields/fvPatchFields/derived/timeVaryingMappedFixedValue

otherwise, I have a little more complicated method to specify the boundary value. good luck.