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Old   May 24, 2007, 05:34
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Hey all,
I'm currently working on a comparison between cfx and openfoam. Therefore I need the meshes in both formats. Therefore I build a mesh in icemCFD and converted it to cfx4 as it was said to be the best way. The conversion of the mesh worked, but just gave little errors about patches:

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Default patch type set to wall
--> FOAM Warning :
From function polyMesh::polyMesh(... construct from shapes...)
in file meshes/polyMesh/polyMeshFromShapeMesh.C at line 573
Found 94 undefined faces in mesh; adding to default patch.
Checking mesh
Number of non-orthogonality errors: 0. Number of severely non-orthogonal faces: 18.
--> FOAM Warning :
From function primitiveMesh::checkFaceSkewness(const bool report, labelHashSet* setPtr) const
in file meshes/primitiveMesh/primitiveMeshCheck.C at line 838
Large face skewness detected. Max skewness = 493.014 percent.
This may impair the quality of the result.
12 highly skew faces detected.
Failed 1 mesh geometry checks.
Failed some mesh checks.
Writing polyMesh
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The Problem now is that I've got the mesh in the openFOAM format, but the patches aren't defined in 'boundaries', although I though I did this in icemCFD and therefore should appear also in oprnFOAM!? Do I really have to search manually for the faces for all boundaries and fill them in?

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Florian
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Old   May 24, 2007, 06:12
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Hi Florian

From my experience, the best way to export a mesh from ICEM-CFD to OpenFoam is to use a the star-CD 3.2.0 format.

In ICEM:

1) Set solver
2) Set boundary conditions
3) write output

-Remember to set the "write shells in element file" to none.

-Be sure that for "Boundaries to write", only "Those with a BC type" is checked.

Than through the starToFoam utility you will have your mesh. It works fine with 2D and 3D bodies. I have had problems with axi-symmetric bodies. If you get this to work, please let me know.

Futhermore, Im very interested in seeing any results of your comparison between the codes.

Good luck

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Old   May 24, 2007, 07:02
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hello all,

I have tried converting icemcfd meshes to openfoam by first exporting to Fluent_V6 then using fluentmeshtofoam utility.

However I could not convert hexa_dominant meshes to openfoam.

Also, cfxToFoam utility requires a mesh in .geo format.I was unable to export the meshes from icemcfd to this format.

I need some help in these regards.

Thanks.
Mayank.
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Old   May 24, 2007, 08:43
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I have found that most meshes created in ICEM have to be imported to their native solvers and re-saved before they convert to Foam. No idea why.

cfxToFoam is a very old converter and only supports up to cfx4 block structured meshes, which arent exported by ICEM.

I'm afraid to compare CFX and foam will probably require at least a two step process:
1) Either make the two meshes seperately and to the same specs in blockMesh and ICEM
2) or
- make the mesh in ICEM,
- export it to Fluent or STAR format.
- Open the mesh in STAR/Fluent and export the geometry again.
- Convert to Foam.
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