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Old   October 19, 2009, 16:25
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I'm trying to get foam mesh converted to fluent with
foamMeshToFluent

I'm not sure how to get this correct ... my fluent mesh is missing all the cellZone information. So I dont have any additional fluid/porous zones in the mesh converted in fluent format ..

Any help appreciated .. thanks
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Old   October 21, 2009, 02:59
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Hi tachyon_me,

let me know ! It is 2D or 3D?
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Old   October 21, 2009, 10:16
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Thanks, it's 3d mesh. I was able to get them after splitting the mesh based on cellzones. Let me also know if there are quick and better way of doing ....
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Old   October 22, 2009, 02:06
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use fluent3DMeshToFoam and let me know ...
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Code:
fluentMeshToFoam myMesh.msh -writeSets -writeZones -scale 0.001
also works most of the time for me (for a mesh called myMesh.msh in mm).

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Old   October 22, 2009, 10:26
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Thanks , Thats helpful...

But In my case I would like to convert SnappyHexMesh "FOAM Mesh" to fluent format while keeping all cellZone as separate fluid zones in fluent...


I guess for this matter I cant do

foamMeshToFluent -time 4 -writeSets -writeZones


But otherwise if you would like to convert fluent mesh to foam the command suggested by Wierink works without a problem ...
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Old   September 9, 2011, 06:39
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hi
how i run my openfoam case in to fluent. because when i apply foamDataToFluent then it only convert .dat file but how i generate case file?

plz tel me
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Old   January 27, 2012, 06:43
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Hi,

as I see, the problem of exporting the correct region names from a foamMesh to fluentMesh is still present in foamMeshToFluent command. The whole domain is exported, all the regions, but without any distinctive label, merged under the same placeholder / default region name.

How can one overcome this limitation?

How does the splitting method works that is mentioned earlier? I came up with this one:
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splitMeshRegions -cellZonesOnly -makeCellZones -overwrite
I can make cellSets based on the regions, but it wont help foamMeshToFluent and I cannot see any special flag for the command.
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Hi,

as I see, the problem of exporting the correct region names from a foamMesh to fluentMesh is still present in foamMeshToFluent command. The whole domain is exported, all the regions, but without any distinctive label, merged under the same placeholder / default region name.

How can one overcome this limitation?

How does the splitting method works that is mentioned earlier? I came up with this one:
Code:
splitMeshRegions -cellZonesOnly -makeCellZones -overwrite
I can make cellSets based on the regions, but it wont help foamMeshToFluent and I cannot see any special flag for the command.
Hi Tibor:

Are you now able to solve this limitation for foamMeshtoFluent?
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Hi all,

I manage to export a mesh from fluent to OpenFoam; however, when I check the mesh (command checkMesh), I have 5 failures (see below). In addition, when I initialized the case I received a warming (see below). Anybody knows how to solve this problem?

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CheckMesh

Code:
Create time

Create polyMesh for time = 0

Time = 0

Mesh stats
    points:           1463379
    faces:            4298112
    internal faces:   4207320
    cells:            1417572
    faces per cell:   6
    boundary patches: 5
    point zones:      0
    face zones:       1
    cell zones:       1

Overall number of cells of each type:
    hexahedra:     1417572
    prisms:        0
    wedges:        0
    pyramids:      0
    tet wedges:    0
    tetrahedra:    0
    polyhedra:     0

Checking topology...
 ****Problem with boundary patch 0 named Inlet of type patch. The patch should start on face no 4207320 and the patch specifies 4229394.
Possibly consecutive patches have this same problem. Suppressing future warnings.
 ***Boundary definition is in error.
    Cell to face addressing OK.
    Point usage OK.
    Upper triangular ordering OK.
    Face vertices OK.
    Number of regions: 1 (OK).

Checking patch topology for multiply connected surfaces...
    Patch               Faces    Points   Surface topology                  
    Inlet               9945     10132    ok (non-closed singly connected)  
    Sym                 39780    40512    ok (non-closed singly connected)  
    Outlet              7527     7683     ok (non-closed singly connected)  
    Inlet2              11466    11692    ok (non-closed singly connected)  
    Wall                22074    22397    ok (non-closed singly connected)  

Checking geometry...
    Overall domain bounding box (-0.3000000142 -3.024070027e-14 -3.241690292e-09) (0.6500000309 0.800000038 0.800000038)
    Mesh (non-empty, non-wedge) directions (1 1 1)
    Mesh (non-empty) directions (1 1 1)
 ***Boundary openness (1.281722558e-05 0.01952710315 0.01952386798) possible hole in boundary description.
 ***Open cells found, max cell openness: 0.9711407906, number of open cells 4602
  <<Writing 4602 non closed cells to set nonClosedCells
  <<Writing 89739 cells with high aspect ratio to set highAspectRatioCells
    Minimum face area = 3.116805768e-07. Maximum face area = 0.0001277530998.  Face area magnitudes OK.
 ***Zero or negative cell volume detected.  Minimum negative volume: -2.707374999e-08, Number of negative volume cells: 89739
  <<Writing 89739 zero volume cells to set zeroVolumeCells
    Mesh non-orthogonality Max: 179.8440355 average: 35.79636703
 ***Number of non-orthogonality errors: 265395.
  <<Writing 265395 non-orthogonal faces to set nonOrthoFaces
 ***Error in face pyramids: 538434 faces are incorrectly oriented.
  <<Writing 273039 faces with incorrect orientation to set wrongOrientedFaces
    Max skewness = 1.793962489 OK.
    Coupled point location match (average 0) OK.

Failed 5 mesh checks.

End
Create time

Create polyMesh for time = 0

Time = 0

Mesh stats
    points:           1463379
    faces:            4298112
    internal faces:   4207320
    cells:            1417572
    faces per cell:   6
    boundary patches: 5
    point zones:      0
    face zones:       1
    cell zones:       1

Overall number of cells of each type:
    hexahedra:     1417572
    prisms:        0
    wedges:        0
    pyramids:      0
    tet wedges:    0
    tetrahedra:    0
    polyhedra:     0

Checking topology...
 ****Problem with boundary patch 0 named Inlet of type patch. The patch should start on face no 4207320 and the patch specifies 4229394.
Possibly consecutive patches have this same problem. Suppressing future warnings.
 ***Boundary definition is in error.
    Cell to face addressing OK.
    Point usage OK.
    Upper triangular ordering OK.
    Face vertices OK.
    Number of regions: 1 (OK).

Checking patch topology for multiply connected surfaces...
    Patch               Faces    Points   Surface topology                  
    Inlet               9945     10132    ok (non-closed singly connected)  
    Sym                 39780    40512    ok (non-closed singly connected)  
    Outlet              7527     7683     ok (non-closed singly connected)  
    Inlet2              11466    11692    ok (non-closed singly connected)  
    Wall                22074    22397    ok (non-closed singly connected)  

Checking geometry...
    Overall domain bounding box (-0.3000000142 -3.024070027e-14 -3.241690292e-09) (0.6500000309 0.800000038 0.800000038)
    Mesh (non-empty, non-wedge) directions (1 1 1)
    Mesh (non-empty) directions (1 1 1)
 ***Boundary openness (1.281722558e-05 0.01952710315 0.01952386798) possible hole in boundary description.
 ***Open cells found, max cell openness: 0.9711407906, number of open cells 4602
  <<Writing 4602 non closed cells to set nonClosedCells
  <<Writing 89739 cells with high aspect ratio to set highAspectRatioCells
    Minimum face area = 3.116805768e-07. Maximum face area = 0.0001277530998.  Face area magnitudes OK.
 ***Zero or negative cell volume detected.  Minimum negative volume: -2.707374999e-08, Number of negative volume cells: 89739
  <<Writing 89739 zero volume cells to set zeroVolumeCells
    Mesh non-orthogonality Max: 179.8440355 average: 35.79636703
 ***Number of non-orthogonality errors: 265395.
  <<Writing 265395 non-orthogonal faces to set nonOrthoFaces
 ***Error in face pyramids: 538434 faces are incorrectly oriented.
  <<Writing 273039 faces with incorrect orientation to set wrongOrientedFaces
    Max skewness = 1.793962489 OK.
    Coupled point location match (average 0) OK.

Failed 5 mesh checks.

End
Warning during the initialization

Code:
--> FOAM Warning : 
    From function List<tetIndices> polyMeshTetDecomposition::faceTetIndices(const polyMesh&, label, label)
    in file meshes/polyMesh/polyMeshTetDecomposition/polyMeshTetDecomposition.C at line 570
    No base point for face 544557, 4(4 192002 192003 6), produces a valid tet decomposition.
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Dear all,

it is a bit terrible to read through this thread because everybody is talking about different things. The thread starter mentioned that he wants to convert an OpenFOAM mesh to a fluent mesh and not vice versa. Based on that, he had problems in converting the cell zone information. Thats simply because in the foamMeshToFluent application this is not considered. I am also looking for some modification to get the cellZone information. Does anyone has done this already or can provide a *.msh file with cellZones (simple cube with two cellZones and 100 cells) in ascii format? If yes, I can make a workaround and solve the problem.
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Dear Tobi,

I came across this post and I thought I could post a mesh. It would be great if you could provide the CFD communitiy a workaround

Thanks for the help!

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Dear Robert,

my colleague does not need it anymore and I have a lot of things to do. I will check it out - maybe during the weekend but I cannot promise it. If I will succeed, I will kindly ask Henry Weller to patch the application. Thanks for your help.
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Dear Robert,

my colleague does not need it anymore and I have a lot of things to do. I will check it out - maybe during the weekend but I cannot promise it. If I will succeed, I will kindly ask Henry Weller to patch the application. Thanks for your help.
Is there any way to know about mesh format that openfoam uses. If there is any information and someone willing to provide multi-region sample meshes then i might write down tool to convert openfoam to fluent.
The reason is that FVUS-wildkatze solver can convert from Fluent and from starccm to its format.
FVUS can also write in fluent format (i need to check if current version has but i know that there is code to write fluent file somewhere so its not a big deal).

This opens up possiblity of openfoam users to use FVUS too, so it does interest me.
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You can just check out the foam converters. I think you will find all necessary information there. If you have a foamToFluentMeshExtend converter, please let the community know. I have not time to investigate into that right now.
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I don't know how to fix this, but you can go around it.

use foamToEnsightParts. You can import the part to fluent (file -> import -> Ensight)
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Use

foamMeshToFluent

within the OpenFOAM case directory.

It will create a folder fluentInterface in which you will find the OF mesh in fluent format.

This command works with OpenFOAM 4.1.
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