[mich_K]

I am trying to run the simpleFoam solver but get the following 'error' in the terminal:

/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| =========                 |                                                 |
| \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |
|  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  2.3.0                                 |
|   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.org                      |
|    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Build  : 2.3.0-f5222ca19ce6
Exec   : simpleFoam
Date   : Aug 07 2014
Time   : 22:04:55
Host   : "mich-desktop"
PID    : 23692
Case   : /home/mich/Dropbox/Akademie/Sem2/MSM781/Assignments/Ass_1/CFD
nProcs : 1
sigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).
fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster
allowSystemOperations : Disallowing user-supplied system call operations

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
Create time

Create mesh for time = 0

Reading field p

Reading field U

Reading/calculating face flux field phi



--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR: 
keyword SIMPLE is undefined in dictionary "/home/mich/Dropbox/Akademie/Sem2/MSM781/Assignments/Ass_1/CFD/system/fvSolution"

file: /home/mich/Dropbox/Akademie/Sem2/MSM781/Assignments/Ass_1/CFD/system/fvSolution from line 22 to line 42.

    From function dictionary::subDict(const word& keyword) const
    in file db/dictionary/dictionary.C at line 643.

FOAM exiting

What must I do to be able to run a solver from a case directory stored anywhere on my computer?

Thank you in advance.

[RodriguezFatz]

Hi,

The "keyword BLABLA is missing" always means, that the solver is missing something in a certain file.
So you in this case "SIMPLE" is missing in the file fvSolution.

This is how it is supposed to look:

SIMPLE
{
        nNonOrthogonalCorrectors 1;
    residualControl
    {
            p               1e-5;
            U               1e-5;
        k        1e-5;
        omega        1e-5;
    }
}

It just tells the simpleFoam solver how to handle some things such as the number of nNonOrthogonalCorrectors and residual control. Normally you need to copy and paste these things from older cases. I guess you will find such a piece of code in your fvSolution file but for a different solver (PIMPLE, PISO, ??)

Philipp.

[mich_K]

Thank you very much Phillipp.

I'm very new to openFOAM so am still learning, but am enjoying the process allot.

Thanks for the help!

[RodriguezFatz]

I know. I asked the same questions a few months ago and was happy about the help here...