[JBrake]

Hi All,

I am trying to model a rotating flap that will be in a dynamic, cylindrical mesh, similar to the attached image from a paper by Schmitt and Elsaesser (2015). I need to embed this into a larger, simpler mesh and eventually connect the two with an arbitrary mesh interface (AMI).



First, I tried modeling just a cylinder using blockMesh geometry. This creates some kind of entity that blockMesh using to project vertices and edges onto. I did not totally understand this process, so I modified an existing one that I found as part of a tutorial.

Next, I tried to copy this cylinder into my larger domain blockMeshDict file (consisting of standard blocks) knowing that its location would overlap with the rest of the mesh. Upon running blockMesh, I get an error that does not surprise me: "Inconsistent number of faces between block pair 5 and 6", yet I do not know how else to go about this problem.

Does anyone know how I can build my domain, and possible get the AMI working so that I can start having the cylinder move with the flap inside?