[samiam1000]

Dear all,

I am trying to simulate a case in OF, using the chtMultiRegionFoam solver.

I have `a slice' of the whole domain and on the lateral faces I want to impose a symmetry boundary condition.

I get this error

lab@lab-laptop:~/Documenti/cases_OF/OF_case11bis_multiregion$ splitMeshRegions -cellZones -overwrite
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| =========                 |                                                 |
| \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |
|  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  2.1.0                                 |
|   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.org                      |
|    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Build  : 2.1.0-0bc225064152
Exec   : splitMeshRegions -cellZones -overwrite
Date   : Apr 06 2012
Time   : 11:27:42
Host   : "lab-laptop"
PID    : 4690
Case   : /home/lab/Documenti/cases_OF/OF_case11bis_multiregion
nProcs : 1
sigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).
fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster
allowSystemOperations : Disallowing user-supplied system call operations

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

Create mesh for time = 0

Creating single patch per inter-region interface.

Trying to match regions to existing cell zones.


Number of regions:3

Writing region per cell file (for manual decomposition) to "/home/lab/Documenti/cases_OF/OF_case11bis_multiregion/constant/cellToRegion"

Writing region per cell as volScalarField to "/home/lab/Documenti/cases_OF/OF_case11bis_multiregion/0/cellToRegion"

Region	Cells
------	-----
0	24900
1	81885
2	57615

Region	Zone	Name
------	----	----
0	-1	domain0
1	-1	domain1
2	-1	domain2

Sizes of interfaces between regions:

Interface	Region	Region	Faces
---------	------	------	-----

Reading volScalarField Ypmma


--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR: 
inconsistent patch and patchField types for 
    patch type symmetryPlane and patchField type calculated

file: /home/lab/Documenti/cases_OF/OF_case11bis_multiregion/0/Ypmma::boundaryField::.* from line 25 to line 26.

    From function fvPatchField<Type>::New(const fvPatch&, const DimensionedField<Type, volMesh>&, const dictionary&)
    in file /home/opencfd/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.1.0/src/finiteVolume/lnInclude/fvPatchFieldNew.C at line 164.

FOAM exiting

but I can't understand what's wrong.

Could you help, please?

Thanks a lot,

Samuele