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0002419OpenFOAMBugpublic2017-01-04 22:20
Reporterjoegi Assigned Tochris  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Summary0002419: option - postProcess does not work with icoFoam
DescriptionIf you try to compute wallShearStress as follows;

icoFoam -postProcess -func wallShearStress -latestTime


You get this error

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
Wrong number of arguments, expected 0 found 1
Invalid option: -postProcess
Invalid option: -func
Invalid option: -latestTime


FOAM exiting


I am using as an alternative pisoFoam which works ok.
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chris

2017-01-04 09:20

manager   ~0007586

icoFoam does not include the -postProcess option. It is really just a demonstration solver. pisoFoam and pimpleFoam can do everything icoFoam can but additionally use the turbulence and transport model libraries.

You could not post-process wallShearStress with icoFoam anyway because it does not instantiate a turbulence model.

joegi

2017-01-04 09:42

reporter   ~0007590

Maybe it can be helpful to add a comment somewhere about the limited capabilities of this solver (and other solvers).

I used it because I needed to setup a function object for another case with a large mesh, and icofoam is the simplest solver to setup. Now I will change my template to pisoFoam.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2017-01-04 08:17 joegi New Issue
2017-01-04 09:20 chris Assigned To => chris
2017-01-04 09:20 chris Status new => closed
2017-01-04 09:20 chris Resolution open => fixed
2017-01-04 09:20 chris Note Added: 0007586
2017-01-04 09:42 joegi Status closed => feedback
2017-01-04 09:42 joegi Resolution fixed => reopened
2017-01-04 09:42 joegi Note Added: 0007590
2017-01-04 22:20 henry Status feedback => closed
2017-01-04 22:20 henry Resolution reopened => no change required