/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\ ========= | \\ / F ield | foam-extend: Open Source CFD \\ / O peration | Version: 3.2 \\ / A nd | Web: http://www.foam-extend.org \\/ M anipulation | For copyright notice see file Copyright ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- License This file is part of foam-extend. foam-extend is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. foam-extend is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with foam-extend. If not, see . Application Q Description Calculates and writes the second invariant of the velocity gradient tensor. The -noWrite option just outputs the max/min values without writing the field. \*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ #include "calc.H" #include "fvc.H" // * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * // void Foam::calc(const argList& args, const Time& runTime, const fvMesh& mesh) { bool writeResults = !args.optionFound("noWrite"); IOobject Uheader ( "U", runTime.timeName(), mesh, IOobject::MUST_READ ); if (Uheader.headerOk()) { Info<< " Reading U" << endl; volVectorField U(Uheader, mesh); volTensorField gradU = fvc::grad(U); volScalarField Q ( IOobject ( "Q", runTime.timeName(), mesh, IOobject::NO_READ, IOobject::NO_WRITE ), 0.5*(sqr(tr(gradU)) - tr(((gradU)&(gradU)))) ); /* // This is a second way of calculating Q, that delivers results // very close, but not identical to the first approach. volSymmTensorField S = symm(gradU); // symmetric part of tensor volTensorField W = skew(gradU); // anti-symmetric part volScalarField SS = S&&S; volScalarField WW = W&&W; volScalarField Q ( IOobject ( "Q", runTime.timeName(), mesh, IOobject::NO_READ, IOobject::NO_WRITE ), 0.5*(WW - SS) ); */ Info<< "mag(Q) max/min : " << max(Q).value() << " " << min(Q).value() << endl; if (writeResults) { Q.write(); } } else { Info<< " No U" << endl; } Info<< "\nEnd\n" << endl; } // ************************************************************************* //