[nikhil108]

Hallo foamers,

I am trying to run a case, the domain is created using blockMesh, then using snappyhex, geometry of the body is captured with stl. I didn't used any refinement levels too. I tried using different settings in snappyHex, but I keep on getting this following error.

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
Celllevel does not satisfy 2:1 constraint.
On face 76826 owner cell 25718 has refinement 0 neighbour cell 26964 has refinement 2

    From function void Foam::hexRef8::checkRefinementLevels(Foam::label, const labelList&) const
    in file polyTopoChange/polyTopoChange/hexRef8/hexRef8.C at line 4851.

everything runs fine when I just use renumber mesh and run the solver from latest time step, but when I use renumbermesh -overwrite then I am getting above error. Below is my snappyhexdict. Please share your thoughts.

castellatedMesh true;
snap            false; 
addLayers       false;

geometry
{
     pump.stl
       {
	type	triSurfaceMesh;
	name	walls;
      }
     inlet1.stl
       {
	type	triSurfaceMesh;
	name	inlet;
      }
    box1 //refine porous
	 {
		type searchableBox;
		min (-0.47 -0.27 -0.47);
		max  (0.47 -0.22 0.47);
	}
    box2 //refine hole
	 {
		type searchableBox;
		min (-0.05 -0.05 -0.58); 
		max  (0.05 0.05 -0.48);
	}
};

castellatedMeshControls
{   
    maxLocalCells 100000;
    maxGlobalCells 2000000;
    minRefinementCells 10;
    maxLoadUnbalance 0.10;
    nCellsBetweenLevels 1; 
   features
    (

    );

    refinementSurfaces
    {
		inlet { level (1 2); patchInfo { type patch; }}
		walls { level (1 2); patchInfo { type wall; }}
    }

    resolveFeatureAngle 30;

    refinementRegions
    {
      /*box1
      {
          mode inside;
          levels ((0 2));         
      }
      box2
      {
          mode inside;
          levels ((0 2));         
      }*/
    }

    locationInMesh (0.15 0.12 0.11);  
    allowFreeStandingZoneFaces true;
}
/*--------------------------------------------------------*/
snapControls
{

    nSmoothPatch 3;
    tolerance 2.0;
    nSolveIter 30;
    nRelaxIter 5;
    nFeatureSnapIter 10;

        implicitFeatureSnap false;

        //- Use castellatedMeshControls::features (default = true)
        explicitFeatureSnap true;

        //- Detect points on multiple surfaces (only for explicitFeatureSnap)
        multiRegionFeatureSnap false;
}
/*--------------------------------------------------------*/
addLayersControls
{
    relativeSizes true;
    layers
    {

    }
    expansionRatio 1.0;

    finalLayerThickness 0.3;

    minThickness 0.1;
}




meshQualityControls
{
    #include "meshQualityDict"


    // Advanced

    //- Number of error distribution iterations
    nSmoothScale 4;
    //- Amount to scale back displacement at error points
    errorReduction 0.75;
}

I tried turning snap on, and used refinements, did changes in geometry.
I am out of ideas, what am I doing wrong, any ideas to troubleshoot this?

Thankyou,

cheers,
nikhil.

[srikanthdeti]

Hi Nikhil,
Have you resolved this issue?

I ran a simulation considering dynamicmesh. I've run it successfully up to a particular time & reconstructed it. Now, I'm trying to start the simulation from the latest time. At this point, I'm also facing the same issue as you were facing.

Thanks in advance ....!