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1 Short description

Calculates the mass flow through boundary patches and face sets

2 Motivation

3 Usage

The utility is controlled by a Dictionary. The contents of the dictionary are

• a list of names of the surfaces. The surfaces can be
  • boundary patches
  • face sets
• for incompressible calculations a density can be defined. This is used to correct (in other words multiply) the results to get the same values as those printed by Fluent.

4 Notes

• The utility can be used for compressible and incompressible faces
• The utility assumes the existence of a phi (if phi is missing for a time-step, no calculation is done for that time-step)
• It does not work in parallel. For parallel calculations of the mass-flow there is a discussion on the Message board.

5 Download

The tar file with the sources

6 History

• First version

--Bgschaid 21:21, 15 Aug 2005 (CEST)