Applying heat flux on a tube surface
 

I want to apply heat on a tube surface (3D). The heat is to be applied on a straight line on the tube. The equation of line is
x= 87.5
y = 126.1620 + (-1*1004.0820)
z= 166.1620 + (-1*-1004.0880)

Since x is constant is given asposition holder, real x[ND_ND];
For this constant value of x, heat is appiled on the line with the equation above. (If y and z are satisfied.
I have created my code below and when I try to interprete it, there is an error report:
Error line 16: invalid type for &&: float && float.
This is the line 16
((y = 126.1620 + (-1*1004.0820)) && (z= 166.1620 + (-1*
-1004.0880)));
How do I correct the error?

#include "udf.h"



/* profile for heat flux*/

DEFINE_PROFILE(heatflux_profile, t, i)

{

    /* declaring variables */

real x[ND_ND];   /* this will hold the position vector */

real y;

real z;

face_t f;



begin_f_loop(f, t)

{

F_CENTROID(x, f,t);

if

((y = 126.1620 + (-1*1004.0820)) && (z= 166.1620 + (-1*

-1004.0880)));

F_PROFILE(f, t, i) =500;

else

F_PROFILE(f,t,i)=350;

}

end_f_loop(f, t)

}

Re: Applying heat flux on a tube surface
 

Is this supposed to be C++ or is it some other language?

Re: Applying heat flux on a tube surface
 

He's using a special header.

You do not want the semicolon at the end of the parenthesized portion of the if statement.

Other than that, it seems weird to be assigning y and z a constant value and then testing whether or not either are zero, which is what your code is doing.

Re: Applying heat flux on a tube surface
 

Your "line equation" is wrong -- you have defined a point.

Re: Applying heat flux on a tube surface
 

Perhaps you intended a test for equality (==), rather than assigment (=). And why the unnecessarily confusing multiplication by -1 in the first expression and double negative in the second?
This seems to make more sense:

if( (y == 126.1620 -1004.0820) && (z == 166.1620 + 1004.0880) ) {

      F_PROFILE(f, t, i) =500;

    else

      F_PROFILE(f,t,i)=350;

}

But

begin_f_loop(f, t)

and

end_f_loop(f, t)

don't look like any kind of C/C++ syntax I've ever seen. What is that supposed to be doing? How is it a loop?

Re: Applying heat flux on a tube surface
 

This code is developed in C++ and used in a computational fluid dynamics model (CFD), Fluent, and these other fetures are part of Fluent. If I get correct the part of stating my if condition then everything else will work.
If I do not use the if condition and apply only heat to the surface decribed by my line equation. I am able to interprete the code into Fluent. I have writen it as
The oter part is teh same as the previous code. In C++ how do I set the condition if y and z are met.

Re: Applying heat flux on a tube surface
 

How do I define a line in 3D

Re: Applying heat flux on a tube surface
 

Please assist me form the equation of line. The staring point is (87.5, 126.162, 166.162) and the end point is (87.5, 877.97, 1170.25)

Re: Applying heat flux on a tube surface
 

My equation of line is
x=87.5
y= 126.162-(1004.082)t
z=166.162-(-1004.088)t
and 0<=t<=1.
(0 is less or equal to t but t is less or equal to 1)

I want to develop a code that applies one value of heat on this line on a tube and another value on other parts of the tube
This code will then be intepreted in Fluent (computational fluid dynamics package) and used for numerical simulation of temperature change in the tube as a result of applied heat.
Please just assist develop this code in C ignoring parts involving Fluent language. If I get this correct in C then will make necessary changes to suit Fluent

Re: Applying heat flux on a tube surface
 

You want to apply one value using the F_PROFILE function to points on your line, and another value using that function "everyplace else", but in C you must define points in terms of discrete values for x, y and z. (Unless there is some way to deal with continuous values in Fluent, but in that case your question is really how to write that in Fluent, not in C.)

Therefore, before we can give you the C code, you must provide ranges for x, y, and z, and you must provide increment sizes for x, y and z in order to compute discrete points in xyz space.

Also, you gave an interval [0,1] for t, but is that really relevant? I don't think you want a 4-dimensional (xyzt) loop. Don't you really want to leave t as a variable in the conditional expression, to be assigned explicit values elsewhere in the code or possibly at runtime?