[claco]

Dear Sirs,

I have created a mesh with a commercial grid generator. Its format is .msh
(Fluent format). Then I have imported it into OpenFOAM environment.
The problem lies in that the internal surfaces can be imported with fluent3DMeshToFoam, but once imported, I have to declare a specific boundary condition for those.
Is there a procedure that allows me to declare those surfaces as "interior" (as in Fluent) surfaces?

Yours Sincerely,

Claudio

[gwierink]

Dear Claudio,

I have had a similar problem and using fluentMeshToFoam instead of fluent3DMeshToFoam, with the -writeSets and -writeZones options, worked for me.

Usage: fluentMeshToFoam <Fluent mesh file> [-writeSets] [-writeZones] [-scale scale factor] [-case dir]  [-help] [-doc] [-srcDoc]

That is, for myMesh.msh in millimeters, I do:

fluentMeshToFoam myMesh.msh -writeSets -writeZones -scale 0.001

Hope it's of any help!

[claco]

Originally Posted by gwierink

Dear Claudio,

I have had a similar problem and using fluentMeshToFoam instead of fluent3DMeshToFoam, with the -writeSets and -writeZones options, worked for me.

Usage: fluentMeshToFoam <Fluent mesh file> [-writeSets] [-writeZones] [-scale scale factor] [-case dir]  [-help] [-doc] [-srcDoc]

That is, for myMesh.msh in millimeters, I do:

fluentMeshToFoam myMesh.msh -writeSets -writeZones -scale 0.001

Hope it's of any help!

Thank You very much gwierink.

One question: with the -writeSets -writeZones options, are these interior faces retained or discarded? Because I need they are present during simulation since I make use of them during postprocessing.

In fact, I know that fluentMeshToFoam usage (alone, without any additional options) does not allow to retain interior surfaces.

Yours sincerely,

Claudio

[gwierink]

Hi Claudio,

If your mesh contains sets of vertices/edges describing faces, then it should work. Have a try. Also, have a look at this thread, where fluentMeshToFoamWithInternals is discussed. The thread is pretty old, so I think it is included in the standard converter now, but I'm not sure. Just have a go .

[bastil]

Well....

default interiors which you do not need for postprocessing can be ignored using fluent3DMeshToFoam. The one you want to keep for postprocessing, ... need to be defined as a "fan" B.C. type in the grid generator BEFORE running fluent3DMeshToFoam. All the other "interior" types will be skipped by the converter.
Afterwards you need to define them as a "cyclic" B.C. in OpenFOAM.

Hope this helps.

Regards Bastian

[claco]

Originally Posted by bastil

Well....

default interiors which you do not need for postprocessing can be ignored using fluent3DMeshToFoam. The one you want to keep for postprocessing, ... need to be defined as a "fan" B.C. type in the grid generator BEFORE running fluent3DMeshToFoam. All the other "interior" types will be skipped by the converter.
Afterwards you need to define them as a "cyclic" B.C. in OpenFOAM.

Hope this helps.

Regards Bastian

Thank You Bastian,

if I have understood correctly, if I want to make an internal surface "transparent" to the flux I have simply to define for it a "type cyclic" b.c. in files p, U, T k omega..?

Yours Sincerely,


Claudio

[kalyangoparaju]

Claudio,

I know it is too late but did that suggestion help? i.e. setting them to cyclic.

Kalyan