[nedc]

Hi all, first post here. Thanks for the good work and comments from everyone.

My question about openFOAM: If I only have the cell centers, face centers and face area normal vectors (with the necessary owner and neighbor information), can I make openFOAM to work with it?

The more precise question I believe is then: where does openFOAM require the use of vertices (besides calculating face areas and normals) and edges?

I am digging through the c++ source guide, but following the inheritance and call relations gets difficult quite quickly.

Just to put the question in context, as a start I am not expecting to use all the features of FOAM. I would like to start with simpleFoam or density-based compressible flow solvers like aeroFoam or rhoCentralFoam for steady state problems with some turbulence models.

Your help is much appreciated! Thanks!

Best,
Ned

[olesen]

Originally Posted by nedc

The more precise question I believe is then: where does openFOAM require the use of vertices (besides calculating face areas and normals) and edges?

I am digging through the c++ source guide, but following the inheritance and call relations gets difficult quite quickly.

You should look at the corresponding section of the user guide (http://www.openfoam.com/docs/user/mesh-description.php), it provides what you are looking for.

It might be easier for you to use one of the existing conversion utilities for your mesh. A non-exhaustive list is provided in the user guide: http://www.openfoam.com/docs/user/mesh-conversion.php

For a more complete list, look in the applications/utilities/mesh/conversion/ directory for something usable, or for something that you can use as a base for your own converter. http://foam.sourceforge.net/doc/Doxy...2fc5fcade.html

[nedc]

Hi Oleson,

Thanks for the reply. However I think you misunderstood my question.

I am not looking to convert some mesh format to OpenFOAM format.

What I want to do is to modify the source code so that I ONLY have to input cell center, face center and owner / neighbor information without any edges and vertices. Something along the line of this.

Could someone please provide some pointers as to how infiltrated into the code the functions that use points and edges? Is it possible to adapt make the changes relatively painlessly?

Best,
Ned