[JasonQuinn]

I've been having difficulty with a simple blockMesh and then decomposePar failing due to a "Cannot find patchField entry for maxY"

I would expect I've setup something wrong but I ran thus file before christmas on the same CFD Direct OF4.1 on AWS and it ran fine. Now I can run blockMesh but when I run decomposePar it fails.

I've loaded just the constant and 0 folders and the output to the below dropbox. I'd appreciate any ideas folks have.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cmrfvkzl8...JjGkQLYla?dl=0

[Traction]

Hey,
there is a clear inconsistency between the patches you created within blockMesh and the patches you adress in your initial / boundary conditions. For example: you create a patch "maxY" in your blockMeshDict which is not present in your initial / boundary conditions.
Besides the structure of your blockMeshDict with the "patches" keyword looks very unfamiliar to me. This could be a source of additional problems so be sure to check the structure of blockMeshDict (for example from tutorials) and correct your blockMeshDict according to that - it should be consistent with the OF version you want to use.

No chance that this case ran fine in the past.

[JasonQuinn]

The b.c. files do not line up with the patches. No idea how I made this error. This was working so I must've made a mistake and then archived it as I do have reasonable results from this model - obviously with different b.c. and initial condition files.

Thank you.