Added a postprocessing util to get time series.

src/utilities/postProcessing/getTimeSeries/Make/files

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+getTimeSeries.C
+
+EXE = $(DAFOAM_ROOT_PATH)/OpenFOAM/sharedBins/getTimeSeries

src/utilities/postProcessing/getTimeSeries/Make/options

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+EXE_INC = \
+    -std=c++11  \
+    -Wno-old-style-cast \
+    -Wno-conversion-null \
+    -Wno-deprecated-copy \
+    -I$(LIB_SRC)/finiteVolume/lnInclude \
+    -I$(LIB_SRC)/meshTools/lnInclude
+
+EXE_LIBS = \
+    -lfiniteVolume \
+    -lmeshTools
+

src/utilities/postProcessing/getTimeSeries/getTimeSeries.C

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+/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
+
+    DAFoam  : Discrete Adjoint with OpenFOAM
+    Version : v3
+
+    Description:
+        Extract time-series data for unsteady simulations
+
+\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+#include "fvCFD.H"
+#include "argList.H"
+#include "Time.H"
+#include "fvMesh.H"
+#include "OFstream.H"
+
+using namespace Foam;
+
+// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
+
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+
+    argList::addOption(
+        "coords",
+        "'(0 0 1)'",
+        "probe point coordinates");
+
+    argList::addOption(
+        "varName",
+        "U",
+        "name of the variable to get time-series from");
+
+    argList::addOption(
+        "varType",
+        "vector",
+        "type of the variable, can be either scalar or vector");
+
+    argList::addOption(
+        "outputName",
+        "VarTimeSeries",
+        "name of the output file (optional)");
+
+#include "setRootCase.H"
+#include "createTime.H"
+#include "createMesh.H"
+
+    word outputName = "VarTimeSeries";
+    if (args.optionFound("outputName"))
+    {
+        outputName = word(args.optionLookup("outputName")());
+    }
+
+    List<scalar> coords;
+    if (args.optionFound("coords"))
+    {
+        coords = scalarList(args.optionLookup("coords")());
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        Info << "Error: coords not set! Exit." << endl;
+        return 1;
+    }
+    point coordPoint = {coords[0], coords[1], coords[2]};
+    label probeCellI = mesh.findCell(coordPoint);
+
+    word varName;
+    if (args.optionFound("varName"))
+    {
+        varName = word(args.optionLookup("varName")());
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        Info << "Error: varName not set! Exit." << endl;
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    word varType;
+    if (args.optionFound("varType"))
+    {
+        varType = word(args.optionLookup("varType")());
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        Info << "Error: varType not set! Exit." << endl;
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    if (probeCellI < 0)
+    {
+        Info << "Error: coords " << coords << " are not within a cell! Exit." << endl;
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    if (varType != "scalar" && varType != "vector")
+    {
+        Info << "Error: varType = " << varType << " is not supported. The options are either scalar or vector " << endl;
+    }
+
+    OFstream f(outputName + ".txt");
+
+    scalar endTime = runTime.endTime().value();
+    scalar deltaT = runTime.deltaT().value();
+    label nSteps = round(endTime / deltaT);
+
+    for (label i = 0; i < nSteps; i++)
+    {
+        word timeName = Foam::name(i * deltaT);
+
+        if (varType == "vector")
+        {
+            volVectorField var(
+                IOobject(
+                    varName,
+                    timeName,
+                    mesh,
+                    IOobject::MUST_READ,
+                    IOobject::NO_WRITE),
+                mesh);
+
+            f << var[probeCellI][0] << " " << var[probeCellI][1] << " " << var[probeCellI][2] << endl;
+        }
+        else if (varType == "scalar")
+        {
+            volScalarField var(
+                IOobject(
+                    varName,
+                    timeName,
+                    mesh,
+                    IOobject::MUST_READ,
+                    IOobject::NO_WRITE),
+                mesh);
+
+            f << var[probeCellI] << endl;
+        }
+    }
+
+    Info << "Done! " << endl;
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+// ************************************************************************* //