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March 16, 2021, 14:44 |
Can't get snappyHexMesh to work properly
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Maarten
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Hey all,
I've been messing around with OpenFOAM to try and simulate drag forces. I adapted the motorBike tutorial case by importing my own model. Now, I decided to start off simple by meshing a sphere, but no matter what I try, I can't seem to get a smooth mesh. I attached some photo's so you can see the results this seems to have on the simulation. So far I've tried increasing the number of maxGlobalCells to 2e7, but all that did was create more unsmooth patches on the surface (albeit smaller ones). Messing with others parameters also didn't do much. By the way, my blockMesh is 50x25x25 cells. I've attached the snappyHexMesh and surfaceFeatureExtract code below, should anyone want to take a look. I'd appreciate every little bit of help, thanks! (My maxGlobalCells and maxLocalCells numbers are rather small here. That's because I've been messing with other parameters of snappyHexMesh and needed a slightly quicker way to check the effects of small tweaks in the code.) Code:
/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\ | ========= | | | \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox | | \\ / O peration | Version: 5 | | \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.org | | \\/ M anipulation | | \*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ FoamFile { version 2.0; format ascii; class dictionary; object snappyHexMeshDict; } // * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * // // Which of the steps to run castellatedMesh true; snap true; addLayers true; // Geometry. Definition of all surfaces. All surfaces are of class // searchableSurface. // Surfaces are used // - to specify refinement for any mesh cell intersecting it // - to specify refinement for any mesh cell inside/outside/near // - to 'snap' the mesh boundary to the surface geometry { motorBike { type triSurfaceMesh; file "motorBike.obj"; } refinementBox { type searchableBox; min (-1.0 -0.7 0.0); max ( 8.0 0.7 2.5); } }; // Settings for the castellatedMesh generation. castellatedMeshControls { // Refinement parameters // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // If local number of cells is >= maxLocalCells on any processor // switches from from refinement followed by balancing // (current method) to (weighted) balancing before refinement. maxLocalCells 200000; // Overall cell limit (approximately). Refinement will stop immediately // upon reaching this number so a refinement level might not complete. // Note that this is the number of cells before removing the part which // is not 'visible' from the keepPoint. The final number of cells might // actually be a lot less. maxGlobalCells 400000; // The surface refinement loop might spend lots of iterations refining just a // few cells. This setting will cause refinement to stop if <= minimumRefine // are selected for refinement. Note: it will at least do one iteration // (unless the number of cells to refine is 0) minRefinementCells 10; // Allow a certain level of imbalance during refining // (since balancing is quite expensive) // Expressed as fraction of perfect balance (= overall number of cells / // nProcs). 0=balance always. maxLoadUnbalance 0.0; // Number of buffer layers between different levels. // 1 means normal 2:1 refinement restriction, larger means slower // refinement. nCellsBetweenLevels 3; // Explicit feature edge refinement // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Specifies a level for any cell intersected by its edges. // This is a featureEdgeMesh, read from constant/triSurface for now. features ( { file "motorBike.eMesh"; level 6; } ); // Surface based refinement // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Specifies two levels for every surface. The first is the minimum level, // every cell intersecting a surface gets refined up to the minimum level. // The second level is the maximum level. Cells that 'see' multiple // intersections where the intersections make an // angle > resolveFeatureAngle get refined up to the maximum level. refinementSurfaces { motorBike { // Surface-wise min and max refinement level level (5 6); // Optional specification of patch type (default is wall). No // constraint types (cyclic, symmetry) etc. are allowed. patchInfo { type wall; inGroups (motorBikeGroup); } } } // Resolve sharp angles resolveFeatureAngle 1; // Region-wise refinement // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Specifies refinement level for cells in relation to a surface. One of // three modes // - distance. 'levels' specifies per distance to the surface the // wanted refinement level. The distances need to be specified in // descending order. // - inside. 'levels' is only one entry and only the level is used. All // cells inside the surface get refined up to the level. The surface // needs to be closed for this to be possible. // - outside. Same but cells outside. refinementRegions { refinementBox { mode inside; levels ((1E15 4)); } } // Mesh selection // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // After refinement patches get added for all refinementSurfaces and // all cells intersecting the surfaces get put into these patches. The // section reachable from the locationInMesh is kept. // NOTE: This point should never be on a face, always inside a cell, even // after refinement. locationInMesh (0 -20 0); // Whether any faceZones (as specified in the refinementSurfaces) // are only on the boundary of corresponding cellZones or also allow // free-standing zone faces. Not used if there are no faceZones. allowFreeStandingZoneFaces true; } // Settings for the snapping. snapControls { //- Number of patch smoothing iterations before finding correspondence // to surface nSmoothPatch 5; //- Relative distance for points to be attracted by surface feature point // or edge. True distance is this factor times local // maximum edge length. tolerance 2.0; //- Number of mesh displacement relaxation iterations. nSolveIter 30; //- Maximum number of snapping relaxation iterations. Should stop // before upon reaching a correct mesh. nRelaxIter 5; // Feature snapping //- Number of feature edge snapping iterations. // Leave out altogether to disable. nFeatureSnapIter 10; //- Detect (geometric only) features by sampling the surface // (default=false). implicitFeatureSnap false; //- Use castellatedMeshControls::features (default = true) explicitFeatureSnap true; //- Detect points on multiple surfaces (only for explicitFeatureSnap) multiRegionFeatureSnap false; } // Settings for the layer addition. addLayersControls { // Are the thickness parameters below relative to the undistorted // size of the refined cell outside layer (true) or absolute sizes (false). relativeSizes true; // Per final patch (so not geometry!) the layer information layers { "(lowerWall|motorBike).*" { nSurfaceLayers 1; } } // Expansion factor for layer mesh expansionRatio 1.0; // Wanted thickness of final added cell layer. If multiple layers // is the thickness of the layer furthest away from the wall. // Relative to undistorted size of cell outside layer. // See relativeSizes parameter. finalLayerThickness 0.3; // Minimum thickness of cell layer. If for any reason layer // cannot be above minThickness do not add layer. // Relative to undistorted size of cell outside layer. minThickness 0.1; // If points get not extruded do nGrow layers of connected faces that are // also not grown. This helps convergence of the layer addition process // close to features. // Note: changed(corrected) w.r.t 17x! (didn't do anything in 17x) nGrow 0; // Advanced settings // When not to extrude surface. 0 is flat surface, 90 is when two faces // are perpendicular featureAngle 60; // At non-patched sides allow mesh to slip if extrusion direction makes // angle larger than slipFeatureAngle. slipFeatureAngle 30; // Maximum number of snapping relaxation iterations. Should stop // before upon reaching a correct mesh. nRelaxIter 3; // Number of smoothing iterations of surface normals nSmoothSurfaceNormals 1; // Number of smoothing iterations of interior mesh movement direction nSmoothNormals 3; // Smooth layer thickness over surface patches nSmoothThickness 10; // Stop layer growth on highly warped cells maxFaceThicknessRatio 0.5; // Reduce layer growth where ratio thickness to medial // distance is large maxThicknessToMedialRatio 0.3; // Angle used to pick up medial axis points // Note: changed(corrected) w.r.t 17x! 90 degrees corresponds to 130 in 17x. minMedianAxisAngle 90; // Create buffer region for new layer terminations nBufferCellsNoExtrude 0; // Overall max number of layer addition iterations. The mesher will exit // if it reaches this number of iterations; possibly with an illegal // mesh. nLayerIter 50; } // Generic mesh quality settings. At any undoable phase these determine // where to undo. meshQualityControls { #include "meshQualityDict" // Advanced //- Number of error distribution iterations nSmoothScale 4; //- Amount to scale back displacement at error points errorReduction 0.75; } // Advanced // Write flags writeFlags ( scalarLevels layerSets layerFields // write volScalarField for layer coverage ); // Merge tolerance. Is fraction of overall bounding box of initial mesh. // Note: the write tolerance needs to be higher than this. mergeTolerance 1e-6; // ************************************************************************* // Code:
/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\ | ========= | | | \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox | | \\ / O peration | Version: 5 | | \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.org | | \\/ M anipulation | | \*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ FoamFile { version 2.0; format ascii; class dictionary; object surfaceFeatureExtractDict; } // * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * // motorBike.obj { // How to obtain raw features (extractFromFile || extractFromSurface) extractionMethod extractFromSurface; extractFromSurfaceCoeffs { // Mark edges whose adjacent surface normals are at an angle less // than includedAngle as features // - 0 : selects no edges // - 180: selects all edges includedAngle 150; } subsetFeatures { // Keep nonManifold edges (edges with >2 connected faces) nonManifoldEdges no; // Keep open edges (edges with 1 connected face) openEdges yes; } // Write options // Write features to obj format for postprocessing writeObj yes; } // ************************************************************************* // |
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March 17, 2021, 00:37 |
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Hasan Celik
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you can change
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includedAngle 150; |
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March 17, 2021, 05:33 |
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Yann
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Hi Marteen,
The maxGlobalCells parameter is meant to limit the size of your mesh. While meshing, if snappyHexMesh hits the cell number in maxGlobalCells it will stop refining to avoid exceeding the number of cells defined in maxGlobalCells. https://www.openfoam.com/documentati...maxGlobalCells This means snappy won't mesh your geometry properly to respect the limit defined in maxGlobalCells. If you want to get a correct mesh, you need to define the proper refinement levels in your snappyHexMesh and avoid to reach the maxGlobalCells limit. Cheers, Yann |
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