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d-montgomery / clotFoam

clotFoam provides a general framework for simulating platelet-mediated coagulation in OpenFOAM
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the platelet's type? #3

Closed keqinhan closed 3 weeks ago

keqinhan commented 4 weeks ago

In the every case of tutorials, there are three platelets, specifically, unactivated platelet, activated platelets and bound platelets. However, in the code file of ClotFoam, in the file called species platelet, there are four types platelet, whether there are some mistakes?

d-montgomery commented 4 weeks ago

In the zero directory there are two platelet species: plt_Pmu is mobile unactivated and plt_Pma is mobile unactivated. The pltBound_S1b species is a biochemical species that is bound to platelet surfaces as described in the SoftwareX paper.

I apologize for the confusion about the other two platelet species. I did some tricks so there are less required fields in the 0 directory to make it easier to adapt for new geometries. If you look at line #245 in the createFields.H file in the source code, you will see that the other two platelet species (plt_Pba and plt_Pbse) are initialized as volScalarFields using a copy constructor of Plt.field[1] which is the plt_Pma species. The copy constructor is only used if there is no plt_Pba file located in the 0 directory (i.e. READ_IF_PRESENT).

Note: Many of the species in the tutorials have the same initial condition and boundary condition, which is why this method works.