CFD Online Discussion Forums - [snappyHexMesh] On refinement limits

Good day,

I am having a problem with creating a mesh.

I am using snappyHexMesh. I had maxGlobalCells set to 2 millions, but then I had this message:

Quote:

Shell refinement iteration 3
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No cells marked for refinement since reached limit 2000000

snappyHexMesh runs until the end, but I get a mesh without the level of refinement I have set.
So I increased the maxGlobalCells, but then when I do that, snappyHexMesh does not run. I get:

Quote:

Shell refinement iteration 3
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Marked for refinement due to distance to explicit features: 0 cells
Marked for refinement due to refinement shells: 3353488 cells
Determined cells to refine in : 1.53s
Selected for internal refinement: 3353488 cells (out of 7700908)
Killed

Something similar happens also when I try to extrudeMesh. If I have a small number of faces to extrude then it is fine. As soon as the number of faces to extrude raises to a 3 or 4 millions then the process is killed.
Do you have any idea why this happens?
Thanks and have a great day