Running a pure fluid flowΒΆ
With HemoCell it is possible to run a pure fluid flow, without any cells present
within the domain. This is technically the same as just running a fluid
simulation with Palabos. The simplest way to remove all the cells is to set the
number of cells in the CELL.pos files to zero (first line). Or to remove the
addCellType and all subsequent functions that request that specific
cell-type (such as setOutputs) from the case.cpp file.
However, this still leaves a small overhead as the function for the material model are still called (although little work is done inside them as there are no cells). This can be circumvented by replacing
hemocell.iterate()
with
hemocell.lattice->collideAndStream();
hemocell.iter++;
within the case.cpp file
