[rama13]

Greetings to all,

first of all let me thank Creative Fields for their work in cfMesh.

As it is said while presenting the cfMesh 1.0.1 version,

Regular expressions – reduce the amount of repetitive work needed when setting up a meshing process. Examples are available in singleOrifice and multipleOrifices cases.

However, I am not able to specify the cellSize in multiple patches by using regular expressions. I have also tried to run the singleOrifice and multipleOrifices cases without any chance. Please see images attached where the first has been generated with

localRefinement //with regular expressions
{
"orificeRegion.*"//orificeRegion_S13
{
cellSize 0.06;
}
}

and the second with

localRefinement //only one patch
{
orificeRegion_S13//"orificeRegion.*"
{
cellSize 0.06;
}
}

What do I mean is that in my opinion regular expressions are not considered by cartesianMesh, while if I specify every patch by hand it works.

Since I haven't found anyone else having the same problem I start thinking I'm doing something really stupid. Does anyone has experience of this problem?

Bests,
Damiano

[rama13]

I strongly believe this problem has to deal with my cfMesh installation.

Maybe this helps in finding the culprit: I had cfMesh 1.0 and then moved to v. 1.0.1, maybe some dependencies still rely on the previous version?!

Damiano

[rama13]

I finally managed to make cfMesh recognize regular expressions.

Maybe this can help someone else in my situation.

First I tried to install the 1.0.1 version with the cfMesh-1.0.1-linux.run file, which is the first proposed by sourceforge.net, and this didn't work.

Then I tried to install by downloading just the cfMesh-v1.0.1.tgz file (from Browse all files) and unpacking it (as it is said in the Creative Fields web site), and it worked!

Hope this helps!

Damiano

[franjo_j]

Hello Damiano,

Thank you for letting us know.
We will check what went wrong in the installation package.

Kind Regards,

Franjo

[franjo_j]

Hello Damiano,

We have tested the installer again, and re-confirmed that it works fine.
However, the problems could be caused by some other version of cfMesh available on your computer. Do you source OpenFOAM with some other version of cfMesh from your .bashrc or .cshrc? The installation package adds cfMesh at the end of your path, and therefore is not usable when you have cfMesh already installed and sourced with some other OpenFOAM installation. By compiling the source, it gets compiled into FOAM_USER_LIBBIN and FOAM_USER_APPBIN of your OpenFOAM installation, and is therefore readily usable.
This is also a lesson for us to modify the installer, such that the cfMesh shell always uses the correct version!
I hope this helps!

Franjo

[rama13]

Hi Franjo,

it seems I don't source them directly from .bashrc. Of course .bashrc calls the OpenFOAM .bashrc and from there FOAM_USER_APPBIN is sourced.

In order to be sure of installing the correct version I erased manually the binaries such as cartesianMesh, tetMesh and cartesian2DMesh, so that I was no more able to launch any meshing process.

Then I runned the cfMesh-1.0.1-linux.run file, and I was again able to launch cartesianMesh, tetMesh and cartesian2DMesh, so I assumed these had to be version 1.0.1. Is it right?

Thanks again for the help,
Damiano

[franjo_j]

Hi Damiano,

Originally Posted by rama13

Hi Franjo,

it seems I don't source them directly from .bashrc. Of course .bashrc calls the OpenFOAM .bashrc and from there FOAM_USER_APPBIN is sourced.

In order to be sure of installing the correct version I erased manually the binaries such as cartesianMesh, tetMesh and cartesian2DMesh, so that I was no more able to launch any meshing process.

Then I runned the cfMesh-1.0.1-linux.run file, and I was again able to launch cartesianMesh, tetMesh and cartesian2DMesh, so I assumed these had to be version 1.0.1. Is it right?

Thanks again for the help,
Damiano

Yes, the that is the correct version. Please do not forget to delet delete libmeshLibrary.so from your FOAM_USER_LIBBIN and FOAM_LIBBIN, too.

Regards,

Franjo