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ok, this is ridiculously stupid and I am unbelievably frustrated... I am a newbie to foam and I can't see me sticking around for long if this continues!

I have v2.1.1 installed, the official rpm for f17.

I have a channel, 15ftx7.5ftx3ft, a stupidly coarse grid for testing purposes of just over 21k cells. I have modified the file from the lid driven cavity to produce my channel in blockMesh.

I am using simpleFOAM.

I have done loads of tutorials, the problems arise when I try to do my own stuff

I want to have a velocity inlet and a pressure outlet. I want my velocity to be a positive (say 70m/s in x direction).

I have no patience with paraview, it seems totally unintuitive to me, so I am converting to fluent to check things as this works for me.

Why does my velocity inlet read into fluent as a pressure outlet?

Why does my pressure outlet velocity always end up equalling the exact negative of the velocity inlet when I have 'run' the simulation?

I can get things to work perfectly when I create the initial mesh in blockmesh, read into fluent, change the bits that are totally wrong, save as a case, convert back to foam and then run - but what good is that if I want to use free software?????

Please, someone, what is going on here?