[otaolafr]

Hello,
I had a functional case in OF ESIv2312 and I want to run it in the Extend version. The case uses non-conformal cyclic BC to create a periodic geometry (tube) between the inlet and the outlet.

• I am using non-conformal cyclic BC so the case could be applied to other meshes but my current mesh is conformal (between the inlet and outlet as it is a structured mesh).
• the creation of the cyclicAMI in ESI was taking less than a minute to run while the creation of the cyclicGgi it has been running since more than 2 days, so I assume that there is something wrong with my setup
• the log of the createPatch stayed at Initializing the GGI interpolator between master/shadow patches: inletAMI/outletAMI since 2 days
• here is an image of the inlet and outlet patches (in the simulation they have a bigger offset in Z, I moved them to show them easily (a simple translation in paraview):
  
• the complete geometry looks like a tube of 1 m of length in the Z axis
• here is an small snap of how I was doing it (in ESI) and I am doing it now (Extend) for creating the patches, for example for the inlet:
  ESIv2312:
  

      {
          name            inletAMI;
          patchInfo
          {
              type            cyclicAMI;
              matchTolerance  0.0001;
              neighbourPatch  outletAMI;
              transform       translational;
              separationVector (0 0 $sep);
          }
          constructFrom patches;
          patches (inlet);
      }

  Extend5.0:
  

      {
          name            inletAMI;
          dictionary
          {
              type            cyclicGgi;
              zone                cyclicPatchesZoneInlet;
              shadowPatch  outletAMI;
              bridgeOverlap   true;
              rotationAngle 0.0;
              rotationAxis (0 0 1);
              rotationCentre (0 0 0);
              separationOffset (0 0 1);
          }
          constructFrom patches;
          patches (inlet);
      }

• In the case of the Extended version before running the createPatch command, I have runned:
  

  setSet -batch setBatchGgi
  setsToZones -noFlipMap

  with the setBatchGgi file which looks like this:
  

  faceSet cyclicPatchesZoneInlet new patchToFace inlet
  faceSet cyclicPatchesZoneOutlet new patchToFace outlet
  quit

• As my case is a simple periodic tube which the patches are translated I added the rotation sections of the cyclicGgi with a 0 angle as mentionned here: https://sourceforge.net/p/foam-extend/tickets/49/

any inputs to this issue would be appreciated...
my complete original (ESI) createPatchDict and the Extended versions:

createPatchDictESI.txt
createPatchDictExtend.txt