[aylalisa]

Hi,


I'd like to simulate a furnace for high temperatures which probably ends up with MultiRegionHeater solver.

The furnace is axially symmetrical and has two cylindrical drill holes (inlet, outlet). It contains an axially symmetrical heating element.
I finally have three meshes:
mesh 1: 'Heizstab.msh' = heating element
mesh 2: 'Stroemungsraum_9' = air volume in the furnace between insulation an heating element
[mesh 3: enclosing insulation cover]

For now I would like to surrender mesh 3 and 'only' import mesh1 and mesh2 in OF.
The meshes have been created in ICEM. I've saved them in a format readable for Fluent-Solver.

I've tried to convert these two meshes to OF consecutively with 'fluentMeshToFoam'.

CheckMesh gives the attached results.
The problem seems to be that the volume can't be rendered since neither point nor cell data is available!

If I open the conversion results in paraview with paraFoam it seems that in each case I have only produced surface meshes.
paraview > Properties tab > Volume Fields has no entry. It is not possible to switch the representation style from Surface to Volume! (Display tab > Style > Representation).

In a second attempt I've used fluent3DMeshToFoam but I ended up with the same problem.

Can anybody explain me the difference between 'fluentMeshToFoam' and 'fluent3DMeshToFoam'?
What do I have to change (maybe in ICEM where I've created the meshes) to create *.mesh files with the necessary point or cell data???

Thanks to All who can help!!!!

Lisa