[hsing]

I am going to run a curved slim pipe flow in cluster. The idea decompose method would be evenly cutting the whole domain along the length direction.

How to set the "manualCoeffs" if I am going to try manual method?

Thanks!

[hjasak]

Manual requires you to prepare a file giving a processor number for each cell in the mesh, (starting from 0). Once you do that, choose the

method manual;

in system/decomposeParDict and under

manualCoeffs
{
dataFile "HERE!!!";
}

give the name of the file you have prepared.

However, I am pretty certain that automatic methods (say, metis) will give you a decent decomposition as well.

Enjoy,

Hrv

[hsing]

Thanks Hrv,
I have tried the metis method, but the result is not good. Metis method assigns number of grid to each cluster node with regard to the weight value I setted, but it decomposed the domain in both width and length directions which resulted in a huge number of grid in the shared face.

Can I control it to decompose the curved domain in length direction only?

[schwarczi]

Hi Hrv,

I understand how to force the manual decomposition in system/decomposeParDict, but unfortunatelly I could not manage to prepare the "cellDecomposition" file, although I read carefully what you wrote in your last post. A simple example of this file's structure would be very-very useful, indeed.

Thanks,
Schwarczi

[AirS]

Hi all,

I'm not sure but is that right if we use decomposePar before using mapFields? or do we need to do the reverse order ?

Thanks!

[l_r_mcglashan]

The cellDecomposition file is basically a labelIOList, so you create an object in whatever utility you are using to write the file. An example might be:

    labelIOList flameMeshManualCoeffs
    (
            IOobject
            (
                "flameMeshManualCoeffs",
                runTime.time().constant(),
                mesh,
                IOobject::NO_READ,
                IOobject::NO_WRITE
            ),
            cellToProcessorList
    );
    flameMeshManualCoeffs.write();

This will write a file with the number of entries being equal to the total number of cells, and each entry being one of the processor numbers. So if there are 8 processors, I need to label them from 0-7.

[AirS]

Dear FOAMers,

What is the main reason to use decomposePar unlike to use pisoFoam (for instance) within a cluster using the same numer of processors as decomposePar ?
I know the main difference is that decomposePar breaks up the domain to solve each domain "separately", but why the choice toward this latter seems to be considered as the best solution? I've seen in the User Guide that is a "fairly economic solution" but I'd like to know why it is so.

Thanks for your help!

[Ralph M]

Hello all,

I'm heavily interested on how to use a manual decomposition. However, the workout of Laurence isn't clear enough for me yet. Could someone give more tips on how to get a manual decomposition?

FYI: I want to preserve a group of cells on a certain distance form my object of interest. The object is allowed to move and right now it seems that at the decomposition patches some errors occur because my move object is right on such a patch. So I want to prevent that my object is in two decompositions.

Thanks for your help!

Update: with "decomposePar -cellDist" it's possible to create the file for manual input...now I have to find a way to create this field!

Ralph

[sail]

Hi Ralph. Sorry to have missed you at mets. To do what you want thwre ia an option in the decomposepardict to preserve thw patches in a subdomain. If it might be viable i'll sig in my notes to find how to do so.

Sorry for the typos, replyong from mobile

[Ralph M]

Originally Posted by sail

Hi Ralph. Sorry to have missed you at mets. To do what you want thwre ia an option in the decomposepardict to preserve thw patches in a subdomain. If it might be viable i'll sig in my notes to find how to do so.

Sorry for the typos, replyong from mobile

Hello Vieri,

Next time we should have each others phone number Did you liked the METS?

I guess that you're working with OF20 since there's a bug in OF21? I got the warning message that preservePatches only works for cyclic patches?

Cheers,

Ralph