[gustafson]

Hi all,
I'm new at this so please forgive my ignorance. I'm trying to run the motorBike example in incompressible simplefoam. I'm getting the following error in decomposePar:

Constructing processor meshes
word::stripInvalid() called for word homepetemotorBikeprocessor0
For debug level (= 2) > 1 this is considered fatal

I believe I've tracked this to be that it cannot create the processor directories (6 in the example). If I create one of the directories I get a different error message (saying it is already decomposed).

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

[gustafson]

First attempt in years. Just trying to run tutorials. I'm getting this in log.decomposePar:

word::stripInvalid() called for word homepetesoftwareOpenFOAM-6OpenFOAM-6tutorialsincompressiblesimpleFoammotorBikeprocessor0
    For debug level (= 2) > 1 this is considered fatal

I see dozens or more similar errors reported in the forums. They primarily refer to problems with a filename or path for the model. I don't think that is the case for me. My working dir has no spaces nor special characters (is "-" as special character?).

The model is the as-distributed motorBike simpleFoam in-compressible model. I simply source etc/bashrc and the ./Allrun.

Note I was able to successfully run the incompressible simplefoam airfoil2d model.

Many thanks,


Note: I've got the same issue with OpenFOAM-6, OpenFOAM-v1812, and OpenFOAM-2.4.0

[Antimony]

Hi,

Do you have a log file of when you run decomposePar? Could you post that?

This type of error usually occurs when you have invalid characters in the path/name of the case. Do you have a space somewhere between words in the name?

Cheers,
Antimony