regionSizeDistribution.H

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Class
    Foam::functionObjects::regionSizeDistribution
 
Description
    Creates a size distribution via interrogating a continuous phase fraction
    field.
 
    Looks up a phase-fraction (alpha) field and splits the mesh into regions
    based on where the field is below the threshold value.  These
    regions ("droplets") can now be analysed.
 
    Regions:
    - print the regions connected to a user-defined set of patches.
      (in spray calculation these form the liquid core)
    - print the regions with too large volume.  These are the 'background'
      regions.
    - (debug) write regions as a volScalarField
    - (debug) print for all regions the sum of volume and alpha*volume
 
    Output (volume scalar) fields include:
    - alpha_liquidCore : alpha with outside liquid core set to 0
    - alpha_background : alpha with outside background set to 0.
 
    %Histogram:
    - determine histogram of diameter (given minDiameter, maxDiameter, nBins)
    - write graph of number of droplets per bin
    - write graph of sum, average and deviation of droplet volume per bin
    - write graph of sum, average and deviation of user-defined fields.  For
      volVectorFields these are those of the 3 components and the magnitude.
 
    Example of function object specification:
    \verbatim
    regionSizeDistribution1
    {
        type            regionSizeDistribution;
        libs            ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");
        ...
        alpha           alpha;
        patches         (inlet);
        threshold       0.4;
        fields          (p U);
        nBins           100;
        maxDiameter     0.5e-4;
        minDiameter     0;
        setFormat       gnuplot;
    }
    \endverbatim
 
Usage
    \table
        Property     | Description             | Required    | Default value
        type         | type name: regionSizeDistribution |yes|
        alpha        | phase field to interrogate | yes      |
        patches      | patches from which the liquid core is identified | yes|
        threshold    | phase fraction applied to delimit regions | yes |
        fields       | fields to sample        | yes         |
        nBins        | number of bins for histogram | yes    |
        maxDiameter  | maximum region equivalent diameter | yes |
        minDiameter  | minimum region equivalent diameter | no  | 0
        setFormat    | writing format          | yes         |
    \endtable
 
See also
    Foam::functionObject
    Foam::functionObjects::fvMeshFunctionObject
    Foam::functionObjects::writeFile
 
SourceFiles
    regionSizeDistribution.C
 
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#ifndef regionSizeDistribution_functionObject_H
#define regionSizeDistribution_functionObject_H
 
#include "fvMeshFunctionObject.H"
#include "writeFile.H"
#include "setWriter.H"
#include "Map.H"
#include "volFieldsFwd.H"
#include "wordReList.H"
#include "coordinateSystem.H"
 
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
 
namespace Foam
{
 
// Forward declaration of classes
class regionSplit;
 
namespace functionObjects
{
 
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
                   Class regionSizeDistribution Declaration
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class regionSizeDistribution
:
    public fvMeshFunctionObject
{
    // Private Data
 
        writeFile file_;
 
        //- Name of field
        word alphaName_;
 
        //- Patches to walk from
        wordReList patchNames_;
 
        //- Clip value
        scalar threshold_;
 
        //- Maximum droplet diameter
        scalar maxDiam_;
 
        //- Minimum droplet diameter
        scalar minDiam_;
 
        //- Number of bins
        label nBins_;
 
        //- Names of fields to sample on regions
        wordList fields_;
 
        //- Output formatter to write
        autoPtr<setWriter> formatterPtr_;
 
 
    // Private Member Functions
 
        template<class Type>
        Map<Type> regionSum(const regionSplit&, const Field<Type>&) const;
 
        //- Get data in order
        template<class Type>
        tmp<Field<Type>> extractData
        (
            const UList<label>& keys,
            const Map<Type>&
        ) const;
 
        //- Write volfields with the parts of alpha which are not
        //  droplets (liquidCore, backGround)
        void writeAlphaFields
        (
            const regionSplit& regions,
            const Map<label>& keepRegions,
            const Map<scalar>& regionVolume,
            const volScalarField& alpha
        ) const;
 
        //- Mark all regions starting at patches
        Map<label> findPatchRegions(const regionSplit&) const;
 
        //- Helper: divide if denom != 0
        template<class Type>
        static tmp<Field<Type>> divide(const Field<Type>&, const scalarField&);
 
        //- Generate fields for writing
        template<class Type>
        void generateFields
        (
            const word& fieldName,              // name of field
            const labelList& indices,           // index of bin for each region
            const Field<Type>& sortedField,     // per region field data
            const scalarField& binCount,        // per bin number of regions
            wordList& fieldNames,
            PtrList<Field<Type>>& fields
        ) const;
 
        //- Generate fields for writing. Scalar overload. It is possible to
        //  generate more fields for scalar input.
        void generateFields
        (
            const word& fieldName,              // name of field
            const labelList& indices,           // index of bin for each region
            const scalarField& sortedField,     // per region field data
            const scalarField& binCount,        // per bin number of regions
            wordList& fieldNames,
            PtrList<scalarField>& fields
        ) const;
 
        //- Generate fields for writing
        template<class Type>
        void generateFields
        (
            const word& fieldName,              // name of field
            const Field<Type>& cellField,       // per cell field data
            const regionSplit& regions,         // per cell the region(=droplet)
            const labelList& sortedRegions,     // valid regions in sorted order
            const scalarField& sortedNormalisation,
            const labelList& indices,           // index of bin for each region
            const scalarField& binCount,        // per bin number of regions
            wordList& fieldNames,
            PtrList<Field<Type>>& fields
        ) const;
 
 
public:
 
    //- Runtime type information
    TypeName("regionSizeDistribution");
 
 
    // Constructors
 
        //- Construct for given objectRegistry and dictionary.
        //  Allow the possibility to load fields from files
        regionSizeDistribution
        (
            const word& name,
            const Time& runTime,
            const dictionary&
        );
 
        //- Disallow default bitwise copy construction
        regionSizeDistribution(const regionSizeDistribution&) = delete;
 
 
    // Destructor
 
        virtual ~regionSizeDistribution();
 
 
    // Member Functions
 
        //- Read the regionSizeDistribution data
        virtual bool read(const dictionary&);
 
        //- Return the list of fields required
        virtual wordList fields() const;
 
        //- Do nothing
        virtual bool execute();
 
        //- Calculate the regionSizeDistribution and write
        virtual bool write();
 
 
    // Member Operators
 
        //- Disallow default bitwise assignment
        void operator=(const regionSizeDistribution&) = delete;
};
 
 
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} // End namespace functionObjects
} // End namespace Foam
 
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#ifdef NoRepository
    #include "regionSizeDistributionTemplates.C"
#endif
 
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#endif
 
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