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Old   April 20, 2012, 13:05
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Dear OpenFOAMers,

I have a channel with an inlet and an outlet. The points are matched on both the inlet and the outlet. Is there a way to convert the inlet and the outlet into a cyclic pair? Thanks!

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Hi,
I think the OpenFOAM documentation (link) answers your question.
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Hi, baserinia,

Thanks for the link!

But, if I already have a mesh that has an Inlet patch and an Outlet patch, is there a way to convert the Inlet patch and the Outlet patch into a cyclic pair?

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If you already have a mesh, you can edit the constant/polyMesh/boundary file and change the definition from patch to cyclic/cyclicAMI. If your patches are non-conformal, you will need to use cyclicAMI. There will be several entries that will need to be supplied; have a look at the $FOAM_TUTORIALS/incompressible/simpleFoam/pipeCyclic case to get started.
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Thanks a lot mturcios777,

I will give it a try this weekend.

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Hi, mturcios777,

WOW, this pipeCyclic case is quite complicated. I have never encountered #codeStream before.

After I finished running the case using ./Allrun, I cannot even do reconstructPar and/or paraFoam/paraview to process the results.

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What version of OF are you running? If you haven't modified the tutorial case it should reconstruct just fine.

In the future, please follow the guidelines in this thread to get a better chance that we can help you:

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Thanks a lot Marco!

I am using OpenFOAM-2.1.x on OpenSUSE 12.1.

I am not able to do reconstructPar. It looks like I will have to set

allowSystemOperations 1;

in $WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/controlDict

It looks like #codeStream is a powerful way to specify BC using C++. This is something new to me and will have to learn it in more detail to understand it.

Anyhow, this example is sufficient for me know how to set cyclicAMI.

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