[Chubmaster]

I am trying to create a 2D simulation of a flat plate at various angles against incoming air. I used blockmesh to create a rectangular mesh 1 cell deep (x direction), and then used snappyHexMesh to merge it with the flate plate stl. However this creates more cells in the x direction. I am attempting to use extrudeMesh to make the front face the whole mesh.



When I run extrudeMesh, I get:

Writing mesh to  "/mnt/c/Users/Avedis/Desktop/Fluids_stuff/flateplate02D/constant/region0"

, it does not write to the most recent polymesh.
When I check the constant directory its not there. If I look at the most recent time in paraview, its the same mesh as before. I don't think it did anything.


this is my extrudeMeshDict:

constructFrom       patch;

sourceCase          ".";

sourcePatches       (front);

exposedPatchName    back;

flipNormals         false;

extrudeModel        linearNormal;

nLayers             1;

expansionRatio      1.0;

linearNormalCoeffs
{
    thickness       0.01;
}

mergeFaces          false;