timeAverage

timeAverage:

Works with VSimBase, VSimEM, VSimPD, VSimPA, and VSimMD licenses.

Incidates Vorpal should record the value of a specified field and take the time average. timeAverage require both a history parameter and a timeWindow parameter. This history time averages the output, in the form of a field, from another history.

timeAverage Parameters

history (string, required): Indicates the history to reference whose output is to be time averaged.

timeWindow (float, required): Specifies the time duration to average over.

timeAverage History Example

<History timeAvePseudo>
    kind = timeAverage
    history = potential
    timeWindow = $10*DT$
</History>

Finally, a history must be defined which computes the quantity which is to be time averaged. In the example below, a pseudoPotential history is used that defines the potential by integration of the electric field along a line.

<History potential>
        kind = pseudoPotential
        field = varEmField.ElecMultiField
        referencePoint = [$NX/2$ 0 $NZ/2$]
        measurePoint  = [$NX/2$ NY $NZ/2$]
</History>