• In case of transient simulation there are many saved times containing all the flow field variables – in fact each saved time takes quite a lot disk space. Not all the flow field variables are always useful and therefore one can prepare the deleteFields.sh script – which is very useful bash script for deleting flow field variables during the calculation. See the listing of the deleteFields.sh script below.
• The script deletes fields enumerated in the list ‘toDeleteFields’ on line 11. As it is set by default the only fields p (pressure) and U (velocity) remain saved for each saved time-step.
• After launching the script – it waits on background and it looks for toDeleteFields and remove them every 2 hours. The timing can be changed on line 12 – the parameter ‘sleepHours’.

#!/bin/bash
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# Deleting Script: deletes fields "toDeleteFields" in processor* folders      #
#                  every "sleepHours" hours (for saving space in storage)     #
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toDeleteFields="U_0 Uar Uart Uat Uf Uf_0 Urt nuTilda_0 nuTilda nut pTot p_rgh phi"
sleepHours=2

while true; do
    echo Deleting fields $toDeleteFields
    for name in $toDeleteFields; do
        find ./processor* -name $name -not -wholename "*/0/*" | xargs rm -v
    done
    sleep ${sleepHours}h
done