[MrDomino]

I'm really new to openFoam and CFD in general although I had a CFD course a few years ago and we did a lot with Fluent so I'm picking things up pretty quickly.

Anyways, I'm trying to get the engineFoam tutorial to work since I'm most interested in using OF to do some engine simulations. If you have any additional info on engineFoam then I'd appreciate it if you would share it with me. Also, does anyone know work is being done to add emissions predictions to engineFoam? I read that someone was working on it but that was a few years ago so I'm wondering what the current status of that is.

On to the problem that I'm having. I loaded up the program (I'm using OF 1.7.0 for Win32 as you can see) and am having problems getting mesh to build. I'm relatively new to OF so I'm not sure what to do. Any help would be much appreciated.

Here's what the program said:

B:\Program Files\OpenFOAM-1.7.0\OpenFOAM\USRNAME-1.7.0\tutorials\combustion\engineFoam\kivaTest>blo ckMesh

/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: 1.7.0 |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.com |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Windows 32 and 64 bit porting by blueCAPE: http://www.bluecape.com.pt *\
| Based on Windows porting (1.6.x v11) by Symscape: http://www.symscape.com |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Build : 1.7.0-21131bcbd876
Exec : blockMesh
Date : Jul 19 2011
Time : 20:46:10
Host : MRBEN-PC
PID : 8040
Case : B:/Program Files/OpenFOAM-1.7.0/OpenFOAM/USRNAME-1.7.0/tutorials/combustion/engineFoam/kivaTest
nProcs : 1
SigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
Create time



--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
Cannot open mesh description file
"B:/Program Files/OpenFOAM-1.7.0/OpenFOAM/USRNAME-1.7.0/tutorials/combustion/engineFoam/kivaTest/constant/polyMesh/blockMeshDict"


From function blockMesh
in file blockMeshApp.C at line 141.

FOAM exiting