[Heisenflower]

Hello everyone, I'm having some trouble with the cavity tutorial. duh

I'm following this guide right here: http://web.student.chalmers.se/group...psAndCases.pdf

I started having problems with the instructions at slide 23. The first step is to copy the icoFoam cavity tutorial to the run directory. It follows this two commands:

cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS/icoFoam/cavity $FOAM_RUN
cd $FOAM_RUN/cavity

However, when I try the cp command, I get this response:

cannot create directory '/home/user/OpenFOAM/user-dev-18.02-cfdsupport/run': No such file or directory

Indeed, when i run 'ls' there is no such file or directory. There is no OpenFOAM directory in my home, only OpenFOAM-in-Box-18.02. I suppose that it would work if I could swap

/home/user/OpenFOAM/user-dev-18.02-cfdsupport/run

for

/home/user/OpenFOAM-in-Box.18.02/user-dev-18.02-cfdsupport/run

Does anyone know a way to do it?

Thank you for your time, and I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, please bare with me lol.

[piu58]

It seems your $FOAM_RUN is not set correctly. You are free to note the real path instead.

[Heisenflower]

Originally Posted by piu58

It seems your $FOAM_RUN is not set correctly. You are free to note the real path instead.

Did that. Now when I try to run blockMesh, it returns me --> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
cannot find file "/home/user/OpenFOAM-in-Box-18.02/user-dev-18.02-cfdsupport/run/system/controlDict

I went looking for a 'system' directory in my OpenFOAM-in-Box.18.02 and found a whole bunch of results. Which one should I paste there?

Edit: It worked by placing my cavity system directory in ' /home/user/OpenFOAM-in-Box-18.02/user-dev-18.02-cfdsupport/run/ '. Then, the new error was ' cannot find file "/home/samyr/system/controlDict" ' . It was solved by following the same procedure. The blockMesh finally worked.

But I still dont understand why bash is searching for the system directory in those places. Specially at my home directory.

Thanks for the help so far

[piu58]

blockMesh looks in ./system for blockMeshDict.

Normally a case is establisehd as

run - <myFolder> - 0
                 - system 
                 - constant

[cojua8]

In file etc/bashrc, line 132 you may set WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR:

export WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR=your/custom/dir

here you may use any environment variables such as $HOME, $WM_PROJECT, $WM_PROJECT_VERSION, etc.

Then, in file etc/config.sh/settings, line 182 you may delete the /run part or just leave it there.

Make sure your directory exists or just create it in terminal:

mkdir -p $FOAM_RUN

This way, $FOAM_RUN is set to your custom run dir.



Hope this helps