[chegdan]

First off, there is a snappyhexMeshDict file in the tar file from the wiki located here in case you wanted to go there and look further into replicating the case that was provided on the wiki. I went ahead and made a new one that works for the STL file you provided.

My snappyHexMeshDict file is

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
|       o          |                                                          |
|    o     o       | HelyxOS                                                  |
|   o   O   o      | Version: vnull.null.null                                           |
|    o     o       | Web:     http://www.engys.com                            |
|       o          |                                                          |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
    version 2.0;
    format ascii;
    class dictionary;
    location system;
    object snappyHexMeshDict;
}

    castellatedMesh true;
    snap true;
    addLayers true;
    geometry
    {
        AskerveinHill.stl
        {
            type triSurfaceMesh;
            name AskerveinHill;
        }

    }

    castellatedMeshControls
    {
        features
        (
        );
        refinementSurfaces
        {
            AskerveinHill
            {
                regions
                {
                    vcg
                    {
                        level (2 3 );
                    }

                }

                level (0 0 );
            }

        }

        refinementRegions
        {
            AskerveinHill
            {
                levels ();
                mode distance;
            }

        }

        locationInMesh (500.0 500.0 250.0 );
        maxLocalCells 1000000;
        maxGlobalCells 2000000;
        minRefinementCells 0;
        nCellsBetweenLevels 1;
        resolveFeatureAngle 30;
        allowFreeStandingZoneFaces false;
    }

    snapControls
    {
        nSolveIter 300;
        nSmoothPatch 3;
        tolerance 1.0;
        nRelaxIter 5;
        nFeatureSnapIter 10;
        implicitFeatureSnap false;
        explicitFeatureSnap true;
        multiRegionFeatureSnap false;
    }

    addLayersControls
    {
        layers
        {
            AskerveinHill_vcg
            {
                nSurfaceLayers 4;
            }

        }

        relativeSizes true;
        expansionRatio 1.0;
        finalLayerThickness 0.3;
        minThickness 0.2;
        nGrow 0;
        featureAngle 60;
        slipFeatureAngle 30;
        nRelaxIter 3;
        nSmoothSurfaceNormals 1;
        nSmoothNormals 3;
        nSmoothThickness 10;
        maxFaceThicknessRatio 0.5;
        maxThicknessToMedialRatio 0.3;
        minMedianAxisAngle 90;
        nBufferCellsNoExtrude 0;
        nLayerIter 50;
        nRelaxedIter 20;
    }

    meshQualityControls
    {
        maxNonOrtho 65;
        maxBoundarySkewness 20;
        maxInternalSkewness 4;
        maxConcave 80;
        minFlatness 0.5;
        minVol 1.00E-13;
        minTetQuality -1e30;
        minArea -1;
        minTwist 0.02;
        minDeterminant 0.001;
        minFaceWeight 0.02;
        minVolRatio 0.01;
        minTriangleTwist -1;
        nSmoothScale 4;
        errorReduction 0.75;
    }

    debug 0;
    mergeTolerance 1E-6;

My blockMeshDict file is

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
|       o          |                                                          |
|    o     o       | HelyxOS                                                  |
|   o   O   o      | Version: vnull.null.null                                           |
|    o     o       | Web:     http://www.engys.com                            |
|       o          |                                                          |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
    version 2.0;
    format ascii;
    class dictionary;
    location system;
    object blockMeshDict;
}

    convertToMeters 1;
    vertices 
    (

        ( 5.0 5.0 -10.0) 
        ( 2640.0 5.0 -10.0) 
        ( 2640.0 2480.0 -10.0) 
        ( 5.0 2480.0 -10.0) 
        ( 5.0 5.0 500.0) 
        ( 2640.0 5.0 500.0) 
        ( 2640.0 2480.0 500.0) 
        ( 5.0 2480.0 500.0) 
    );
    blocks 
    (
    hex (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7) (106 100 21 ) simpleGrading (1 1 1)
    );
    edges ( );
    patches 
    (
    
 wall ffminx ( (0 4 7 3) )
 wall ffmaxx ( (1 2 6 5) )
 wall ffminy ( (0 1 5 4) )
 wall ffmaxy ( (3 7 6 2) )
 wall ffminz ( (0 3 2 1) )
 wall ffmaxz ( (4 5 6 7) )

    );
    mergePatchPairs ( );

and this can all be meshed by executing

blockMesh
snappyHexMesh

When the blockMeshDict is placed in the constant/polyMesh folder and the snappyHexMeshDict file is in the system folder of the case. These files should produce a domain that has about 1.3 million cells with a boundary layer of cells over the domain. You may want to look through the snappyHexMeshDict in the tar file form the original Askervein case (above) and add refinement boxes and change the refinement levels to match the original case. I suggest you look at the following presentation to get a good idea about what each of these entries are in my dictionary files and also the overall method involved.

[izna]

thank you.

froom the onlie package i cannot open it.. this is why i used another askervin .stl which i sent to you.

HAving done the modifications, i am able to run the blockmesh and snappyhexmesh.

then i run simpleFoam.. and i obtain error..

/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: 2.2.0 |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.org |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Build : 2.2.0-5be49240882f
Exec : simpleFoam
Date : Jul 10 2013
Time : 13:24:41
Host : "izna-MS-7592"
PID : 3545
Case : /home/izna/Desktop/Askervein
nProcs : 1
sigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).
fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster
allowSystemOperations : Disallowing user-supplied system call operations

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
Create time

Create mesh for time = 6

Reading field p



--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
cannot find file

file: /home/izna/Desktop/Askervein/6/p at line 0.

From function regIOobject::readStream()
in file db/regIOobject/regIOobjectRead.C at line 73.

FOAM exiting