Selecting a specific time using SolutionUserObject

[rnpratoori]

Hello,

I have an exodus file of simulation. I want to access a specific time of this file to be called in the SolutionUserObject. This time does not belong to the last timestep. Is there a way to do it? I want to use this SolutionUserObject in SolutionIC.

[GiudGiud]

hello

yes in the solutioonUserObject, use the timestep parameter to pick the time step of interest

https://mooseframework.inl.gov/source/userobjects/SolutionUserObject.html

[rnpratoori]

Is there a way to prescribe the time directly and not the timestep? I am using adapative time stepping, so, I have to manually match the timestep number based on the time I need.

[GiudGiud]

not right now but it could be added in the code

[rnpratoori]

@GiudGiud I am trying to use the timestep option. I think there is a bug in the implementation.

I get the below error when I use 2 as the timestep number -

*** ERROR ***
/home/rnp/MOOSE/projects/panther/problems/3p_dis_void_mech.i:101.5:
The following error occurred in the UserObject '3phase' of type SolutionUserObject.

Invalid value passed as "timestep". Expected "LATEST" or a valid integer less than 1, received 2

[GiudGiud]

how many time steps do you have in the file?

[rnpratoori]

I think I made a mistake. The solution was run using adaptive meshing and has multiple output files. Which file should I be using to access all the timesteps?

[GiudGiud]

not sure the solution user object will support loading intermediate files

there is no file that has all the time steps. It s a limitation of the exodus format. The exodus reader in paraview is reconstructing the transient from multiple files

You might be able to project all the other time steps onto the most refined mesh to be able to group the time steps. It will be development work though