[bigphil]

Hi,

Does anybody know how to get a vtk mesh or an Abaqus mesh into OpenFOAM?


The reason I ask is that I was trying out the freely available meshing software IA-FEMesh:
http://www.ccad.uiowa.edu/mimx/IA-FEMesh/

IA-FEMesh lets you hex mesh complex geometries like bones. But you can only export the mesh as a '.inp' file (Abaqus) or save it as a '.vtk' mesh.

So does anybody know how I might convert these to OpenFOAM?


Thanks in advance,
Philip

Some info:
I am wanting to entirely hex mesh a bone in OpenFOAM.
snappyHexMesh works fine to produce a hex dominated mesh, with a few polyhedra, and I will probably use these meshes for my simulations.

Also, if you entirely tet mesh the bone (in Gambit for example), then you can use the 'polyDualMesh' utility to create an entirely polyhedral mesh. I will have to do some mesh analysis to see if these meshes are suitable for my simulations.