[levvis]

Hi all

I've created a mesh around an aerofoil in gmsh, and converted it to OpenFOAM via the gmshToFoam command which came out with the following warning:

--> FOAM Warning :
From function polyMesh:olyMesh(... construct from shapes...)
in file meshes/polyMesh/polyMeshFromShapeMesh.C at line 627
Found 69421 undefined faces in mesh; adding to default patch.

but used checkMesh, terminal told me:

Checking geometry...
Overall domain bounding box (-5 -4 0) (5 4 1)
Mesh (non-empty, non-wedge) directions (1 1 1)
Mesh (non-empty) directions (1 1 1)
Boundary openness (1.12865e-18 -8.92402e-18 -3.0121e-15) OK.
Max cell openness = 1.86858e-16 OK.
Max aspect ratio = 880.922 OK.
Minimum face area = 5.43055e-06. Maximum face area = 0.277767. Face area magnitudes OK.
Min volume = 5.43055e-06. Max volume = 0.0247845. Total volume = 79.9177. Cell volumes OK.
Mesh non-orthogonality Max: 38.9542 average: 7.75624
Non-orthogonality check OK.
Face pyramids OK.
Max skewness = 0.559458 OK.
Coupled point location match (average 0) OK.

Mesh OK.

End

And so I finally called the command paraFoam, to check the mesh in paraview and when selecting the meshed parts and clicking apply, I get thrown out of paraview and get this returned to me in the terminal:

--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
Cannot find patchField entry for front

file: /home/lwsedgeworth/OpenFOAM/lwsedgeworth-2.4.0/run/fyp/AeroFoam/Tutorials-2.4.0/incompressible/AeroFoam/0/p.boundaryField from line 26 to line 50.

From function GeometricField<Type, PatchField, GeoMesh>::GeometricBoundaryField::readField(const DimensionedField<Type, GeoMesh>&, const dictionary&)
in file /home/openfoam/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/GeometricBoundaryField.C at line 209.

FOAM exiting

Segmentation fault (core dumped)


Any ideas whatsoever are very welcome!

[alexeym]

Hi,

Names of boundaries in your mesh (msh file) and in your initial/boundary conditions (files in 0 folder) are out of sync. Just like the error message said:

Cannot find patchField entry for front

file: /home/.../AeroFoam/0/p.boundaryField from line 26 to line 50.

Your mesh has front boundary, yet it is not specified in 0/p file.

[levvis]

Thank you very much! I forgot about the files in the 0 directory, too busy trying to get the mesh sorted.