[himani.garg]

Hey fellas, I am trying to use the postprocessing utility called postChannel using OF version 7, but I get the following error. To my understanding, this is related to non-hex cells. Has anyone tried to work with it for non-hex meshes? Do you have any suggestions or alternatives?

Thank you,

 ignore@7b88cbd539b1:~/workingDir/SHM_test$ postChannel 
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
  =========                 |
  \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox
   \\    /   O peration     | Website:  https://openfoam.org
    \\  /    A nd           | Version:  7
     \\/     M anipulation  |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Build  : 7-1ff648926f77
Exec   : /opt/openfoam7/platforms/linux64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/postChannel
Date   : Oct 21 2021
Time   : 19:26:50
Host   : "7b88cbd539b1"
PID    : 416
I/O    : uncollated
Case   : /home/openfoam/workingDir/SHM_test
nProcs : 1
sigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).
fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster (fileModificationSkew 10)
allowSystemOperations : Allowing user-supplied system call operations

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
Create time

Create mesh for time = 0


Reading transportProperties


--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: 
Face:206126 neighbour cell:5(978543 978544 206126 978536 978539) is not a hex?

    From function void Foam::channelIndex::walkOppositeFaces(const Foam::polyMesh&, const labelList&, Foam::boolList&)
    in file channelIndex.C at line 138.

FOAM aborting

#0  Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:?
#1  Foam::error::abort() at ??:?
#2  ? at ??:?
#3  ? at ??:?
#4  ? at ??:?
#5  ? at ??:?
#6  __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6"
#7  ? at ??:?
qemu: uncaught target signal 6 (Aborted) - core dumped
Aborted