[nikhil108]

Hallo foamers,

I have 5 blocks, which have to be joined together and form 1 block. Only the faces exposed to the outside are supposed to be defined as patches. So, I want to merge faces that are in the middle of the domain. I tried to use mergePatchPairs for that, but unable to merge all patches. The following figures explain the problem more in detail. The yellow faces in the figure have to be merged (to internal faces) and blue faces have to defined as patches. blockMesh file is attached below. I used mergePatchPairs to merge faces, but it works for only any one of the blocks. for example, if I merge face from block 1 to face from block 2 then I cant merge the face from block 1 to face from block 3, don't know why it's not working. Is there any way to do this? Please someone shed some light on this.

cheers,
nick.

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FoamFile
{
    version     2.0;
    format      ascii;
    class       dictionary;
    object      blockMeshDict;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

convertToMeters 1;

vertices
(

//block01

(-15   0.12  0.00)//0 	
( 15   0.12  0.00)//1 
( 15   20.0  0.00)
(-15   20.0  0.00)
(-15   0.12  8.00)//4	
( 15   0.12  8.00)//5 
( 15   20.0  8.00)
(-15   20.0  8.00)

//block02

(-15  -0.40  0.00)//8 	
(-1   -0.40  0.00) 
(-1    0.12  0.00)
(-15   0.12  0.00)//11
(-15  -0.40  8.00)//12 	
(-1   -0.40  8.00) 
(-1    0.12  8.00)
(-15   0.12  8.00)//15


//block03

(-1   -0.40  0.00) 	
(5.0  -0.40  0.00) 
(5.0   0.12  0.00)
(-1    0.12  0.00)
(-1   -0.40  8.00) 	
(5.0  -0.40  8.00) 
(5.0   0.12  8.00)
(-1    0.12  8.00)

//block04

(5.0  -0.40  0.00) 	
(15   -0.40  0.00)//25 
(15    0.12  0.00)//26
(5.0   0.12  0.00)
(5.0  -0.40  8.00) 	
(15   -0.40  8.00)//29 
(15    0.12  8.00)//30
(5.0   0.12  8.00)

//block05

(-15  -20.0  0.00) 	
( 15  -20.0  0.00) 
( 15  -0.40  0.00)//34
(-15  -0.40  0.00)//35
(-15  -20.0  8.00) 	
( 15  -20.0  8.00) 
( 15  -0.40  8.00)//38
(-15  -0.40  8.00)//39



);

blocks  //(0 1 3 2 4 5 7 6)
(
  hex (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7)         (60 60 20) simpleGrading (1 1 1) //block1
  hex (08 09 10 00 12 13 14 04) (60 60 20) simpleGrading (1 1 1) //block2
  hex (16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23) (60 60 20) simpleGrading (1 1 1) //block3
  hex (24 25 01 27 28 29 05 31) (60 60 20) simpleGrading (1 1 1) //block4
  hex (32 33 25 08 36 37 29 12) (60 60 20) simpleGrading (1 1 1) //block5

);

edges
(
);


boundary               
    (
	bt01
	{
		type	empty;
		faces ( (0 1 5 4) );
	}
	bt02
	{
		type	empty;
		faces ( (00 04 14 10) );
	}
	bt03
	{
		type	empty;
		faces ( (19 23 22 18) );
	}
	bt04
	{
		type	empty;
		faces ( (27 31 05 01) );
	}


	up05
	{
		type	empty;
		faces ( (08 12 29 25) );
	}
	up02
	{
		type	empty;
		faces ( (8 9 13 12) );
	}
	up03
	{
		type	empty;
		faces ( (16 17 21 20) );
	}
	up04
	{
		type	empty;
		faces ( (24 25 29 28) );
	}

	rt02
	{
		type	empty;
		faces ( (9 10 14 13) );
	}
	rt03
	{
		type	empty;
		faces ( (17 18 22 21) );
	}
	lt03
	{
		type	empty;
		faces ( (16 20 23 19) );
	}
	lt04
	{
		type	empty;
		faces ( (24 28 31 27) );
	}


    );


mergePatchPairs
(
(up05 up02)
(up05 up03)
(up05 up04)
//
(bt01 bt02)
(bt01 bt03)
(bt01 bt04)
//

//(rt02 lt03)
//(rt03 lt04)
//
);

[Ship Designer]

If the faces to be merged are conformal, i.e. all the points on both faces are overlapping, then you might want to try the Face Matching technique. See this great document at page 50, although I recommend studying the whole document as it has a lot of useful stuff: http://www.wolfdynamics.com/wiki/mes..._blockmesh.pdf

Cheers, Claudio