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Old   August 9, 2014, 21:01
Default Adding forcecoeffs file to the controldict is causing pimpleDyMfoam to crash.
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Hello all! I simulated an oscillating airfoil using pimpleDyMfoam and got some results. Later I added a forcecoeffs file and ran it again to measure forces and the solution is crashing.

I checked the log files and it seems like the forcecoeffs is altering the initial conditions of the spring. I gave anchor(0,0,0) , refattachment(0,0,0), velocity(0, 0.8, 0). In the log.pimpleDyMfoam file, it shows the initial spring length as (0, 9e-5,0) when it should actually be (0,0,0).

Here is my forcecoeffs file. At the end of the controldict file I added #include "forceCoeffs"

forceCoeffs1
{
type forceCoeffs;
// type forces;

functionObjectLibs ( "libforces.so" );

outputControl timeStep;
timeInterval 1;

log yes;

patches ( wing );
pName p;
UName U;
rhoName rhoInf; // Indicates incompressible
log true;
rhoInf 1; // Redundant for incompressible
liftDir (0 0 1);
dragDir (1 0 0);
CofR (0 0 0); // Axle midpoint on ground
pitchAxis (0 1 0);
magUInf 0;
lRef 0.001; // Wheelbase length
Aref 0.002; // Estimated

// binData
// {
// nBin 20; // output data into 20 bins
// direction (1 0 0); // bin direction
// cumulative yes;
// }
}

I uploaded the log.pimpleDyMfoam and dynamicMeshDict files. Please help me guys.
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File Type: txt dynamicMeshDict.txt (2.2 KB, 15 views)
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Old   August 11, 2014, 04:38
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Did you put your include statement like this?

functions
{
#include "forceCoeffs"
}

It has to be inside the functions subdict.

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Did you put your include statement like this?

functions
{
#include "forceCoeffs"
}

It has to be inside the functions subdict.

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Hey Tom ! Thanks for the reply. I added it in the functions subdict. Yesterday I modified my controldict file by adding the lib.openFOAM.so. I still get the error. I'm uploading the new controldict file and log file. Please take a look.
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Good evening,

I am wondering, whether it is because magUInf is set to zero, i.e. when computing the force coefficient based on the magnitude of the incident velocity, you are likely to divide by zero.

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Hello ! I tried changing the magUInf to non-zero values and it is still crashing. The unexpected thing is that when I add the forceCoeffs file it is changing the initial conditions of the spring. The anchor is supposed to be (0,0,0) but its showing a non-zero value instead.
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Just wondering what would happen if you run the simulation for a few (say 10) time steps with the functions section commented out and than uncomment this section. I wonder if there is something special about just the first time step that may cause this, but it looks a bit strange indeed.

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Hey I tried your suggestion and its still crashing. Could it be my bcs ? I gave a zero gradient on all four sides. There is no ambient velocity. The flatplate is plunging in still air. I added the following two lines to the fvSolutions file
PIMPLE
{
correctPhi yes;
nOuterCorrectors 2;
nCorrectors 1;
nNonOrthogonalCorrectors 0;
pRefCell 0; // These two were added
pRefValue 0;
//
}

Is it possible that the pRefValue shouldnt be zero ?
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Old   August 15, 2014, 02:59
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I just found out that the wingMotion case is also crashing when I insert the forceCoeffs file. I would really appreciate if someone can try it and check if its a bug in pimpleDyMFoam. I was able to extract data from pimpleFoam but not from pimpleDyMFoam.
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Old   August 20, 2014, 05:19
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Hi, just did the test with the tutorial. It runs perfectly fine when magUInf is non-zero, so I cannot reproduce your error.
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Old   August 20, 2014, 12:39
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Hey Tom ! Thanks for your time. How long did you run the simulation? When I ran the test case, it went on for a while before crashing. Could you upload your log file please? If I confirm that your simulation ran fine, I will reinstall openfoam230.
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Hi

It ran for the entire time a set in the controlDict for the case. I had to rerun the case to get the log since I deleted it last time. You can download the log here:

http://we.tl/CD48eDLusI

to get the log back:
tar xzf log.tgz

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Old   October 7, 2014, 00:03
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Hello Tom! I checked your log file. Thanks a lot. I was able to run the simulations successfully if I choose 3 cores. The solution is crasing for any other number on my laptop. My laptop has 4 cores and 8 threads. I read about it online. It is called a race condition. Do you know what could be causing it?
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Old   October 10, 2014, 05:56
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I will not be able to help you with that issue I'm afraid. Sounds like a hardware/software compatibility issue, or maybe related to compiling? Really have no clue. Good luck.

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Hello everybody!

This is a bug in OpenFOAM code and it has been resolved by commit 5179e8ea3bcb24cdb6ad0ac96764c0d562a55945 .

Thanks for the help.
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