[Zack]

Dear all:

I am running 2D unsteady case with OpenFoam. I need to extract the position (x) of Maximum temperature along the pre-defined line or through whole of my region for each time step.

Basically, I need to have a table showing the location of maximum temperature at each time step (time, X).

Could someone pls help me on that?

Thanks.

[ahmmedshakil]

Hi,
You can deployed probe options. Just walk bottom of the "controlDict" and plug in the following lines....

functions
{
    probes
    {
        // Where to load it from
        functionObjectLibs ( "libsampling.so" );

        type            probes;

        // Name of the directory for probe data
        name            probes;

        // Write at same frequency as fields
        outputControl   outputTime;
        outputInterval  1;

        // Fields to be probed
        fields
        (
            T   //-Fields you want to see
	    
	    
        );

        probeLocations
        (
            (0		   0 	 	 0) //-point locations (x,y,z)
	   	    			
	);        			
            
    }
}

I guess, it will be helpful.

cheers
shakil

Originally Posted by Zack

Dear all:

I am running 2D unsteady case with OpenFoam. I need to extract the position (x) of Maximum temperature along the pre-defined line or through whole of my region for each time step.

Basically, I need to have a table showing the location of maximum temperature at each time step (time, X).

Could someone pls help me on that?

Thanks.

[Zack]

Hi Shakil

Thank you for your help.

I am just wondering that the probe you gave me would record the temperature at location (0,0,0) for each time step/time interval?

Actually what I am looking for is:

at each time step or specified time interval, record the location of the point which has maximum temperature on either my whole region or specified/predefined line in my region.

Could you pls guide me on that?

[ksara]

Hi Zack,

In order to get the maximum (and minimum) value and location of temperature in the whole region for every time step you can use 'fieldMinMax' function, which is added to the 'controlDict' file.

functions
{
    minMax
    {
        // Type of functionObject
        type            fieldMinMax;

        // Where to load it from (if not already in solver)
        functionObjectLibs ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");

        // Function object enabled flag
        enabled         true;

        // Log to output (default: false)
        log             false;

        // Write information to file (default: true)
        write           true;

        // Fields to be monitored - runTime modifiable
        fields
        (
            T
        );
    }
}

As a result you receive a 'fieldMinMax.dat' file, which contains something like that:

# Time field min position(min) processor max position(max) processor
2.010100e+04 T 8.081115e+02 (-4.421370e-01 1.144333e-01 -2.089623e-01) 7 9.231500e+02 (-1.583240e-02 1.705093e-02 1.317570e-01) 0
2.010200e+04 T 8.072860e+02 (-4.421370e-01 1.144333e-01 -2.089623e-01) 7 9.249336e+02 (-2.547975e-02 1.920170e-02 1.509917e-01) 9

ksara

[Zack]

Hi ksara

Thanks for your response.

I have three more questions as well:

1- If I have some points (rather than one point) which have maximum temperature , how would I be able to record only the one which has higher/lower amount of X? Can I modify the fieldMinMAx function in a way to do that for me ?

2- If I want to track location of specified field value ( such as T=800 K), how would I be able to do it?

3- If I want to track Maximum/Minimum/specified value of temperature along the arbitrary line in my region (exp : center line in region rather than whole region), how should I do that? Where should I define the line and where I suppose to mention that in monitoring code?

I appreciate for your help again.