refinement by region
 

Hi all,
I am using snappyhexmesh for my model. I am modeling 3blocks and I want to refine mesh area around the blocks. When I use refinement box with searchable type, and define refinement box -with the area that I want to be refined- in refinement region, it does create mesh but not refine them as I expect.

Can anyone please let me know where the problem is?

here is snappyhexmeshdict:

/*--------------------------------*- C++-*----------------------------------*\\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: 2.1.1 |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.com |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
version 2.0;
format ascii;
class dictionary;
object snappyHexMeshDict;
}

castellatedMesh true;
snap true;
addLayers false;

geometry
{
A3b1.stl
{
type triSurfaceMesh;
name A3b1;
}
A3b2.stl
{
type triSurfaceMesh;
name A3b2;
}
A3b3.stl
{
type triSurfaceMesh;
name A3b3;
}


refinementBox //USER DEFINED REGION NAME
{
type searchableBox; //REGION DEFINED BY BOUNDING BOX
min (5.6 0 0); //parameters
max ( 7.5 1.5 0.5 );
}

}

castellatedMeshControls
{
maxLocalCells 10000000;
maxGlobalCells 10000000;
minRefinementCells 10;
maxLoadUnbalance 0.10;
nCellsBetweenLevels 3;

features
(
);

refinementSurfaces
{
A3b1
{
level (0 0);
}
A3b2
{
level (0 0);
}
A3b3
{
level (0 0);
}
}

resolveFeatureAngle 65;

refinementRegions
{
refinementBox
{
mode inside;
levels ((0.001 3));
}
}
locationInMesh (0.005 0.005 0.005);
allowFreeStandingZoneFaces true;
}

snapControls
{
nSmoothPatch 3;
tolerance 4.0;
nSolveIter 30;
nRelaxIter 5;
nFeatureSnapIter 5;
}

addLayersControls
{
relativeSizes true;

layers
{

}

expansionRatio 1.0;
finalLayerThickness 0.3;
minThickness 0.1;
nGrow 1;
featureAngle 30;
nRelaxIter 3;
nSmoothSurfaceNormals 1;
nSmoothNormals 3;
nSmoothThickness 10;
maxFaceThicknessRatio 0.5;
maxThicknessToMedialRatio 0.3;
minMedianAxisAngle 130;
nBufferCellsNoExtrude 0;
nLayerIter 50;
nRelaxedIter 20;
}

meshQualityControls
{
maxNonOrtho 65;
maxBoundarySkewness 20;
maxInternalSkewness 4;
maxConcave 80;
minVol 1e-13;
minTetQuality -1E30;
minArea -1;
minTwist 0.02;
minDeterminant 0.001;
minFaceWeight 0.02;
minVolRatio 0.01;
minTriangleTwist -1;
nSmoothScale 4;
errorReduction 0.75;
//relaxed
// {
// maxNonOrtho 80;
// }
}

debug 0;
mergeTolerance 1e-6;




Thanks,
Shima

Hi Shima,

Try making this change under refinementRegions:

Does this work

Thomas