New Member on OpenFOAM
 

I am new member for OpenFOAM. i downloaded OpenFoam 4.0 for my computer, when i try to follow the tutorials instructions on my Openfoam i find that i can not find the folder named polyMesh which each tutorial refers to inorder to find the blockMesh.
What should i do or what could have happened to my openfoam download.

You need to run the blockMesh command first.

Dear Pliz,
Thanks for your reply.
First how do i run the blockMesh command? where is it found?
secondly am trying to model fluid flow in pipe that is turbulent,how best can i handle it?

You don't need to know where exactly the blockmesh command is stored. There is a search path for it. simply type in blockMesh .

After that you start the solver of your choice.

Dear all,
I am new OpenFOAM user. i installed OpenFoam-4.0 on ubuntu 16.04, when run command blockMesh it gives me ''command not found''. what could be my problem? How can i fix it.

i also tried to run .bashrc it gives me the error
** (gedit:6682): WARNING**: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-position not supported

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Thanks Pliz,

i have tried it but i still get blockMesh "command not found" message appears.

Now what could be the problem and how should handle it

thanks for the support.

Hey Josenoah,
Hopeffully this may help you ,
https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/F...ot_be_found.3F

Good luck !

Looking for the best geometry app for OpenFOAM
 

Hi fellows,
Please I am new to OpenFOAM and need a good app to help me with the geometry modeling and meshing. Thank you

Moi,

It depends on how professional you are in CAD design and meshing:

1- Open source software

1.a) CAD
I suggest you to use Salome or onshape for you geometry design. You can also do meshing with salome (I don't suggest that). There are lots of YouTube tutorials for that. also the following tutorials:
http://www.wolfdynamics.com/our-serv...ing.html?id=50

1.b) MESH
As I mentioned salome could be one option. I generally use cfMesh, which works great. SnappyHexMesh is another one.
For tutorials of SnappyHexMesh use this:

http://www.wolfdynamics.com/wiki/meshing_OF_SHM.pdf

2- Commercial software:


2.a) CAD
There are lots of them. Catial, SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Design modeler in ANSYS
2.b) MESH
Fluent Mesher, ANSYS Mesher, Pointwise, GridPro

I worked with all of these software. I use any of them for the purpose of the project. I suggest you to start with Salome and cfMesh.

Moikka!

Peyman