Averages columns of cells for layered meshes.
For each patch face, calculates the average value of all cells attached in
the patch face normal direction, and then pushes the average value back
to all cells in the column.
Useful for channel-like cases where we want to average fields in the
spanwise direction.
Example of function object specification:
columnAverage1
{
type columnAverage;
libs ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");
...
patches (front side);
fields (U p);
}
Where the entries comprise:
\table
Property | Description | Required | Default value
type | type name: fieldMinMax | yes |
patches | list of patches to collapse onto | yes |
fields | list of fields to process | yes |
\endtable
- this corresponds to 'never match', which may be useful in combination
with -constant selection.
Eg,
surfaceMeshTriangulate -constant -time none
selects only the constant entry and suppresses any automatic time loop
STYLE: adjust help for the standard -times option
- indicate that times can be comma or space separated, since this is
otherwise not apparent. Don't mention semicolon separators in the help
since that just adds even more clutter.
- support .vtp format for geometry, surface, line, cloud.
- use native reader for handling vtk, vtp, obj, stl surface files.
For other formats, use the MeshedSurface (the surfMesh lib) to
handle reading and Foam::vtk::Tools::Patch to handle the
conversion to vtkPolyData. This combination is more memory efficient.
- update tutorial case to include vtp surface geometry
- note that it does not actually triangulate unless necessary, should
probably receive a new name.
- use newer constructs for handling processor/non-processor patch
selection etc.
- for quantities such as face area/normals etc, it can be useful to
calculate directly and avoid the overhead of caching all the values.
STYLE: comments, use HashTable lookup() method in whichPoint()
- this allows more use of the runTimePostProcessing functionObject
that will fail more gracefully if the proper version could not be
built.
The dummy functionObject simply emits a message that it is not available.
- this is identical to either of these solutions:
* getEnv("FOAM_CASE")
* stringOps::expand("<case>")
but with a closer resemblance to argList or Time globalPath(),
which makes the intent clearer.
Avoids using raw strings in the caller, which improves compile-time checks.
Used in situations where a class has no derivation path or other
access to a time registry or command args.
- provide relativePath() for argList and for Time.
These are relative to the case globalPath().
Eg,
Info<< "output: " << runTime.relativePath(outputFile) << nl;
- partial solution for issue #1091
This generates file properties that are case-relative,
Eg,
plane0
{
p
{
file "<case>/postProcessing/plane0/1/p_plane0.vtk";
}
U
{
file "<case>/postProcessing/plane0/1/U_plane0.vtk";
}
}
This allows the case to be moved elsewhere and still find its files.
This functionality was previously added for vtkCloud, but now also
applies to streamLine, sampledSets and sampledSurfaces
- it is sufficient to provide the total number of times that findBinary()
failed instead of flooding the screen with messages
Full verbose warnings still emitted when debugging is on.
