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How to associate different material to different parts of the mesh ?

I am new to OpenFOAM : I looked in the documentation and also to the tutorials/multiphase/twoPhaseEulerFoam/LES/bubbleColumn example, but, I didn't really understand how and what to do. Does the mesh-material association is supposed to be done at mesh time (by blockMesh) or later (at pre-processing time), and, how is it done ?

I just want to apply "material 1" to a hex block meshed with blockMesh, and, to apply "material 2" (with different Young Modulus from material 1) to another hex block meshed with blockMesh (the 2 hex block share a common face)

Can somebody help me on this ?

Thanks,

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After more time looking on this, I realize that I am probably supposed to:

1. set a initial field (in the 0 directory) for the Young Modulus
2. write my own system/setFieldDict and run setFields after blockMesh

... But this is still not working : after blockMesh and setFields, I can not see the Young Modulus repartition in Paraview.


If somebody can help, I would appreciate !



Thanks


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OK, so, looking for a solution I came to http://www.openfoam.org/docs/user/damBreak.php. This looks similar in that one has to use setFields.

I use OpenFOAM-2.3.1 (built from source) on Ubuntu14.04 :

1. I run blockMesh
2. I run "cp 0/alpha.water.org 0/alpha.water"
3. I run setFields
4. I run paraFoam : I do NOT see alpha in paraview, I do NOT getFigure 2.21 from http://www.openfoam.org/docs/user/damBreak.php

What did I miss ?


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