[vikramrajagopalan]

Trying to solve the aerofoilNACA0012 tutorial with the rhoSimpleFoam solver and getting this error, any suggestions on how to fix this?

[anon_q]

Can you show us the 0/U file?

[vikramrajagopalan]

Here it is --

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

Uinlet (250 0 0);

dimensions [0 1 -1 0 0 0 0];

internalField uniform $Uinlet;

boundaryField
{
freestream
{
type freestreamVelocity;
freestreamValue uniform $Uinlet;
value uniform $Uinlet;
}

wall
{
type noSlip;
}

#includeEtc "caseDicts/setConstraintTypes"
}

// ************************************************** *********************** //

[anon_q]

Can you please post the constant/polyMesh/boundary file.

I think you made a mistake in this file, check if the type of freestream boundary condition is "patch" not "pa"

[vikramrajagopalan]

boundary file. My error message had more characters than allowed in the title so it cut it off to "pa"

I didn't make any changes to any of the files, I just opened the tutorial and ran 'blockMesh' and then 'rhoSimpleFoam' and that was the message

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

5
(
aerofoil
{
type wall;
inGroups 1(wall);
nFaces 120;
startFace 31760;
}
inlet
{
type patch;
inGroups 1(freestream);
nFaces 200;
startFace 31880;
}
outlet
{
type patch;
inGroups 1(freestream);
nFaces 160;
startFace 32080;
}
back
{
type empty;
inGroups 1(empty);
nFaces 16000;
startFace 32240;
}
front
{
type empty;
inGroups 1(empty);
nFaces 16000;
startFace 48240;
}
)

// ************************************************** *********************** //

[anon_q]

Please provide the full error message (or the case if possible). Without that, it is "guess what's wrong" game.

In your 0/U, freestream is a name of a patch, but in constant/polyMesh/boundary, there is no patch with that name?!!!

[vikramrajagopalan]

Sorry about that - here's the entire error --
ran blockMesh first and then rhoSimpleFoam. Is there something else I need to be doing?


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

Create mesh for time = 0


SIMPLE: convergence criteria
field p tolerance 0.0001
field U tolerance 0.0001
field "(k|omega|e)" tolerance 0.0001

Reading thermophysical properties

Selecting thermodynamics package
{
type hePsiThermo;
mixture pureMixture;
transport const;
thermo hConst;
equationOfState perfectGas;
specie specie;
energy sensibleInternalEnergy;
}

Reading field U



--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
Unknown patchField type freestreamVelocity for patch type patch

Valid patchField types are :

82
(
SRFFreestreamVelocity
SRFVelocity
SRFWallVelocity
activeBaffleVelocity
activePressureForceBaffleVelocity
advective
atmBoundaryLayerInletVelocity
calculated
codedFixedValue
codedMixed
cyclic
cyclicACMI
cyclicAMI
cyclicSlip
cylindricalInletVelocity
directionMixed
empty
externalCoupled
extrapolatedCalculated
fixedGradient
fixedInternalValue
fixedJump
fixedJumpAMI
fixedMean
fixedNormalInletOutletVelocity
fixedNormalSlip
fixedProfile
fixedShearStress
fixedValue
flowRateInletVelocity
flowRateOutletVelocity
fluxCorrectedVelocity
freestream
inletOutlet
interstitialInletVelocity
kqRWallFunction
mapped
mappedField
mappedFixedInternalValue
mappedFixedPushedInternalValue
mappedFlowRate
mappedVelocityFlux
matchedFlowRateOutletVelocity
mixed
movingWallVelocity
noSlip
nonuniformTransformCyclic
outletInlet
outletMappedUniformInlet
outletPhaseMeanVelocity
partialSlip
pressureDirectedInletOutletVelocity
pressureDirectedInletVelocity
pressureInletOutletParSlipVelocity
pressureInletOutletVelocity
pressureInletUniformVelocity
pressureInletVelocity
pressureNormalInletOutletVelocity
processor
processorCyclic
rotatingPressureInletOutletVelocity
rotatingWallVelocity
sliced
slip
supersonicFreestream
surfaceNormalFixedValue
swirlFlowRateInletVelocity
swirlInletVelocity
symmetry
symmetryPlane
timeVaryingMappedFixedValue
translatingWallVelocity
turbulentInlet
uniformFixedGradient
uniformFixedValue
uniformInletOutlet
uniformJump
uniformJumpAMI
variableHeightFlowRateInletVelocity
waveTransmissive
wedge
zeroGradient
)


file: /mnt/d/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1806/tutorials/compressible/rhoSimpleFoam/aerofoilNACA0012_1/0/U.boundaryField.freestream from line 27 to line 17.

From function static Foam::tmp<Foam::fvPatchField<Type> > Foam::fvPatchField<Type>::New(const Foam::fvPatch&, const Foam:imensionedField<Type, Foam::volMesh>&, const Foam::dictionary&) [with Type = Foam::Vector<double>]
in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/src/finiteVolume/lnInclude/fvPatchFieldNew.C at line 134.

FOAM exiting

[vikramrajagopalan]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1no...FwyWePLWCExmTu

[gkarlsen]

You are running a v-1806 tutorial in an Openfoam 5.0 environment. Openfoam 5.0 does not have the BC freestreamVelocity, hence the error.

[vikramrajagopalan]

Oh that's what it is. Thanks Geir and Evren!

[anon_q]

That works for OpenFOAM 6 but not for OpenFOAM 5