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Setting alpha.particles field for fluidized bed reactor #1

Closed alnajihu closed 3 years ago

alnajihu commented 3 years ago

Greetings,

I am trying to model a fluidized bed reactor using the catchyMultiphaseEulerFoam solver. I modified the tutuorials in the packedBedValidation folder by adding the setFieldsDict in the system folder. However, the solver does not read the setFieldsDict when I run the code, it only reads the initial values for alpha.gas and alpha.particles in the '0' folder, and so the whole bed is initiated with those values. Could you please guide me on how to modify the tutorial to model a fluidized bed reactor with changing alpha values.

Thank you for help Regards

lavdwall commented 3 years ago

Hi, Did you execute setFields first? The catchyMultiphaseEulerFoam solver doesn't take into account setFieldsDict (nor does any other native OpenFOAM solver). You would have to run setFields first to change the initial values of alpha.gas and alpha.particles. I hope this helps? Best regards Laurien

alnajihu commented 3 years ago

Hi, Did you execute setFields first? The catchyMultiphaseEulerFoam solver doesn't take into account setFieldsDict (nor does any other native OpenFOAM solver). You would have to run setFields first to change the initial values of alpha.gas and alpha.particles. I hope this helps? Best regards Laurien 1 Yes, you're right, I forgot to run the setFields command. Now, it works perfectly. Thank you !