[Mahdi_Kh]

Hi everyone,
I am getting this error while compiling Olaflow with openfoam9. The compilation fails at the end. Can anyone help with some brief explanation of steps for compilation? Thank you all.

In file included from incompressibleInterPhaseTransportModel.H:46,
from incompressibleInterPhaseTransportModel.C:26:
/opt/openfoam9/src/twoPhaseModels/incompressibleTwoPhaseMixture/lnInclude/incompressibleTwoPhaseMixture.H:38:10: fatal error: kinematicTransportModel.H: No such file or directory
38 | #include "kinematicTransportModel.H"
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [/opt/openfoam9/wmake/rules/General/transform:26: Make/linux64GccDPInt32Opt/incompressibleInterPhaseTransportModel.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/mahdi/olaFlow/solvers/olaFlowOF_org_latest/incompressibleInterPhaseTransportModel'
make: *** [/opt/openfoam9/wmake/makefiles/apps:39: incompressibleInterPhaseTransportModel] Error 2
olaFlow solvers compilation failed

[crubio.abujas]

Probably the solver is not originaly written for Openfoam9. If you're lucky the changes may be minor and you can try finding where the libraries are placed in the new version.

1. Finding the file in your system:

you can try the following command

find $FOAM_SRC -name "kinematicTransportModel.H"

to find where is installed (or if it installed in the first place).

In my case I find it in "src/transportModels/lnInclude/kinematicTransportModel.H"


2. Telling the solver where the header is:

Now just modify the file Make/options in your custom solver to add it. for example:

EXE_INC = \
       -I$(LIB_SRC)/finiteVolume/lnInclude \
       -I$(LIB_SRC)/transportModels/lnInclude \
       ...

Notice that you just have to include the path to the lnInclude folder, not the complete path to the header file. With that the compiler should be able to find it and continue with the process.

However, nothing ensures you that the code inside that library has suffer further changes and more errors may appear while compiling.


Cross your fingers and happy foaming.

[Mahdi_Kh]

Hi Crubio,

Thank you so much for the solution. From your guidance, I realized that there are several folders in the "Solver" folder of Olaflow which are named for different versions of the Openfoam. Version 9 was not there, but there was a folder named "OF_latest version". I renamed that to "OF9", and then compiled it again, and now those errors are not appearing anymore. It is being compiled now to see how it will go.

Thank you.

[Mahdi_Kh]

Originally Posted by crubio.abujas

Probably the solver is not originaly written for Openfoam9. If you're lucky the changes may be minor and you can try finding where the libraries are placed in the new version.

1. Finding the file in your system:

you can try the following command

find $FOAM_SRC -name "kinematicTransportModel.H"

to find where is installed (or if it installed in the first place).

In my case I find it in "src/transportModels/lnInclude/kinematicTransportModel.H"


2. Telling the solver where the header is:

Now just modify the file Make/options in your custom solver to add it. for example:

EXE_INC = \
       -I$(LIB_SRC)/finiteVolume/lnInclude \
       -I$(LIB_SRC)/transportModels/lnInclude \
       ...

Notice that you just have to include the path to the lnInclude folder, not the complete path to the header file. With that the compiler should be able to find it and continue with the process.

However, nothing ensures you that the code inside that library has suffer further changes and more errors may appear while compiling.


Cross your fingers and happy foaming.

Thank you so much again for your reply. Do you know how long it should take to compile normally? I put it for compilation like for 16 hours, and it looked never ending.

[crubio.abujas]

I don't know about the specific of this solver. Depending on the machine y may take more or less, but I would say thats a long compiling process (or not the best machine for CFD).

Please, consider asking on the dedicated threat of olaFlow. The OLAFLOW Thread