dump the conductive heat flux on a surface element

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Submitted by skyopener on Fri, 04/04/2014 - 10:14

Hello everyone,

Now, I tested the conductive heat transfer between particles with stl surface with an older version 2.3.2. The desired quantity I want to obtain is the heat flux transfered from an element of the mesh, in the same way as the wear quantity.
When digging into the code detail, I noted that there is a command 'compute wall/gran/local' evaluting this quantity.

The way I adopted is:
1. define a compute command:
compute ch all wall/gran/local heatFlux
2. dump it in the dump command:
dump dumpstress all mesh/gran/VTK 2000 post/dump*.vtk stress wear c_ch cad
However, it doesn't work. Nothing related to the heatflux is obtained in the vtk file.

Is it the problem of setting or I have to code it myself, in order to obtain this quantity?
Any suggestion will be much appreciated.
thx.
Young