OpenFOAM and Salome

fred · September 25, 2006, 02:58

Hi,
I have read few days ago some posts on salome, as a preprocessor (geometry, mesh generation).
Does Salome exports geometry, and/or mesh in one of OpenFOAM formats ?
Best regards,

Frédéric

mattijs · September 25, 2006, 04:03

Can Salome output unv files? I read something about a unvToFoam script posted here.

sergei · September 25, 2006, 05:57

Mattijs, Salome can write (I-DEAS) .unv files. We have tested some simple geometries (created whithin Salome, so) and meshed those. STAR can import those meshes including shells whithout problems. Did not try it yet in OpenFOAM (have it on suse 10.0, but cannot make salome running on it, probably have to try a bit harder)

olesen · September 25, 2006, 06:27

Sergei,

I was also playing around with Salome and had no problem imported unv files that I've converted from Foam with the

foamMeshToUnv.tar.gz conversion utility.

If, however, I wish to create a group (for tagging boundary conditions), I can only select nodes or elements, but not the faces of elements (which I would require for Foam). Is this possible in Salome?

Thanks,
/mark

sergei · September 25, 2006, 11:10

Mark,
I have to honest, we didn't put much effort into Salome yet (because I could run it on SuSE only from version 10.1).
Basically, what we are doing, importing "raw" meshes (from different packages, even from ICEM) into STAR-CD, and then finishing the model in it.
OpenFOAM (we are using it only for some special cases, because of speed) has excelent convertor for it, so why bother.
Anyway, I am going to look in more details at Salome, and will come back with answer to your question

billy · September 25, 2006, 11:37

I played a little bit with SALOME and I it exports UNV (I-deas). In this thread you can see I attempted to build a converter. It has several limitations because UNV format is quite extense.

http://www.cfd-online.com/OpenFOAM_D...tml?1158103068

If someone could test and improve the code, it would be great.

hsieh · September 25, 2006, 20:36

Hi,

The developer of CAELinux LiveDVD developed a python code to convert unv file to OpenFOAM (I guess it is OpenFOAM 1.2) format. I have not tried this python code myself yet.

I was not able to install Salmoe v3.2.1 on a SuSE 10.1 64 bit OS. It was pretty easy to install Salome v3.2.1 on Mandriva 2006 (32 bit). But, the easiest is to use the CAELinux LiveDVD. I guess that the BC info can be obtained through using "groups" in unv.

pei

September 25, 2006, 02:58	Hi, I have read few days ago	#1
fred New Member Frédéric Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 18 Rep Power: 17	Hi, I have read few days ago some posts on salome, as a preprocessor (geometry, mesh generation). Does Salome exports geometry, and/or mesh in one of OpenFOAM formats ? Best regards, Frédéric

September 25, 2006, 04:03	Can Salome output unv files? I	#2
mattijs Senior Member Mattijs Janssens Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,419 Rep Power: 26	Can Salome output unv files? I read something about a unvToFoam script posted here.

September 25, 2006, 05:57	Mattijs, Salome can write (I-D	#3
sergei Member sergei shulepov Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 37 Rep Power: 17	Mattijs, Salome can write (I-DEAS) .unv files. We have tested some simple geometries (created whithin Salome, so) and meshed those. STAR can import those meshes including shells whithout problems. Did not try it yet in OpenFOAM (have it on suse 10.0, but cannot make salome running on it, probably have to try a bit harder)

September 25, 2006, 06:27	Sergei, I was also playing	#4
olesen Senior Member Mark Olesen Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: https://olesenm.github.io/ Posts: 1,684 Rep Power: 40	Sergei, I was also playing around with Salome and had no problem imported unv files that I've converted from Foam with the foamMeshToUnv.tar.gz conversion utility. If, however, I wish to create a group (for tagging boundary conditions), I can only select nodes or elements, but not the faces of elements (which I would require for Foam). Is this possible in Salome? Thanks, /mark

September 25, 2006, 11:10	Mark, I have to honest, we di	#5
sergei Member sergei shulepov Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 37 Rep Power: 17	Mark, I have to honest, we didn't put much effort into Salome yet (because I could run it on SuSE only from version 10.1). Basically, what we are doing, importing "raw" meshes (from different packages, even from ICEM) into STAR-CD, and then finishing the model in it. OpenFOAM (we are using it only for some special cases, because of speed) has excelent convertor for it, so why bother. Anyway, I am going to look in more details at Salome, and will come back with answer to your question

September 25, 2006, 11:37	I played a little bit with SAL	#6
billy Senior Member Billy Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 167 Rep Power: 17	I played a little bit with SALOME and I it exports UNV (I-deas). In this thread you can see I attempted to build a converter. It has several limitations because UNV format is quite extense. http://www.cfd-online.com/OpenFOAM_D...tml?1158103068 If someone could test and improve the code, it would be great.

September 25, 2006, 20:36	Hi, The developer of CAELin	#7
hsieh Senior Member Pei-Ying Hsieh Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 317 Rep Power: 18	Hi, The developer of CAELinux LiveDVD developed a python code to convert unv file to OpenFOAM (I guess it is OpenFOAM 1.2) format. I have not tried this python code myself yet. I was not able to install Salmoe v3.2.1 on a SuSE 10.1 64 bit OS. It was pretty easy to install Salome v3.2.1 on Mandriva 2006 (32 bit). But, the easiest is to use the CAELinux LiveDVD. I guess that the BC info can be obtained through using "groups" in unv. pei

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