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0001657OpenFOAMBugpublic2015-04-17 20:05
Reporterjkau Assigned Tohenry  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
PlatformGNU/LinuxOSUbuntuOS Version14.04
Summary0001657: cAlpha is not reread during runtime
Descriptionchanging cAlpha in fvSolutions during runtime does not have an effect. Solver output ("re-reading mofified fvSolution...") is missleading.
Reason for not updating: cAlpha is read only once in constructor of interPhaseProperties, which is called in createFields.H. This is only done at start up.
Steps To Reproducechange cAlpha in one of the inter-solvers during runtime.
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henry

2015-04-17 20:05

manager   ~0004619

interfaceProperties: Add support for re-read of sigma and cAlpha
    
    Note that currently when transportProperties is changed sigma is re-read
    from this dictionary but cAlpha is read from fvSolution but cAlpha is
    not re-read when fvSolution is changed but transportProperties is not
    touched. To avoid this problem cAlpha would need to be moved to the
    transportProperties dictionary which is not ideal or moved out of the
    interfaceProperties class back to the top-level solver.

Resolved in OpenFOAM-dev by commit 88c50996f4fa7d68e24ec35aa7a37f0ad76b2506

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2015-04-16 13:52 jkau New Issue
2015-04-17 20:05 henry Note Added: 0004619
2015-04-17 20:05 henry Status new => resolved
2015-04-17 20:05 henry Resolution open => fixed
2015-04-17 20:05 henry Assigned To => henry