[Antonio40]

Hello,

Can any one help me in running cavitatingFoam?
I have to simulate cavitation in a valve and I'm using OpenFoam 2.3.1 and when i try to run CavitatingFoam i get the following error:
--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:

request for surfaceScalarField phiv from objectRegistry region0 failed
available objects of type surfaceScalarField are

7
(
rhoPhi
rhof
((rhorAUf*magSf)*snGrad(p))
(rhorAUf*magSf)
phi
phi_0
rhorAUf
)


From function objectRegistry::lookupObject<Type>(const word&) const
in file /home/openfoam/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.3.1/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/objectRegistryTemplates.C at line 198.

FOAM aborting

#0 Foam::error:rintStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:?
#1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:?
#2 Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvsPatchField, Foam::surfaceMesh> const& Foam:bjectRegistry::lookupObject<Foam::Geometric Field<double, Foam::fvsPatchField, Foam::surfaceMesh> >(Foam::word const&) const at ??:?
#3 Foam::totalPressureFvPatchScalarField::updateCoeff s(Foam::Field<double> const&, Foam::Field<Foam::Vector<double> > const&) at ??:?
#4 Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh>::GeometricBoundaryField::updateCoef fs() at ??:?
#5 Foam::fvMatrix<double>::fvMatrix(Foam::GeometricFi eld<double, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh> const&, Foam::dimensionSet const&) at ??:?
#6 Foam::fv::gaussLaplacianScheme<double, double>::fvmLaplacianUncorrected(Foam::GeometricFi eld<double, Foam::fvsPatchField, Foam::surfaceMesh> const&, Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvsPatchField, Foam::surfaceMesh> const&, Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh> const&) at ??:?
#7 Foam::fv::gaussLaplacianScheme<double, double>::fvmLaplacian(Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvsPatchField, Foam::surfaceMesh> const&, Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh> const&) at ??:?
#8
at ??:?
#9
at ??:?
#10
at ??:?
#11 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6"
#12
at ??:?
Maybe my question is silly but i'm new of openFoam. Thanks for your help.
Regards
Antonio

[maninthemail]

Your error is coming from the total pressure boundary condition. 2.3.1 changed phiv to phi in cavitatingFoam. You need to remove the bit of the boundary condition entry that specifies the name of phi as phiv.

    inlet
    {
        type            totalPressure;
        U               U;
        phi             phiv; // <-- remove this entry
        rho             rho;
        psi             none;
        gamma           1;
        p0              uniform 300e5;
    }

[Antonio40]

Great it works!! After this modification initially it showed an error but i've changed phiv with phi in divschemes and now it works well Thanks a lot, really!