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Old   March 13, 2014, 18:28
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Hello,
I have been using SU2 with periodic boundary conditions and ran into a couple of problems. Can SU2 be used in parallel with periodic boundary conditions? For the same case running fine in serial, an error occurs in parallel when writing the restart file. It also seems that the partitioned grid didn't keep the SEND_RECEIVE marker ensuring the communication between periodic boundaries, and the PERIODIC_INDEX= 1 and PERIODIC_INDEX= 2 sections are all set to 0. Could you tell me if I missed a step for running such case in parallel?
Also, the restart file written by SU2 skips halo cells and all nodes from one of the periodic boundaries, which leads to the generation of a wrong Tecplot file, where the grid structure (including halo cells and both periodic boundaries) and the number of nodes (original nodes without one of the periodic boundaries) don't match.
I used SU2 for solving other problems and it worked well otherwise. Thank you!
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Old   March 17, 2014, 10:19
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After many tests, it appears that the problem really comes from the SU2_DDC program which overwrites the SEND_RECEIVE markers related to the periodic boundary conditions. Older versions of SU2 such the version 2.0.3 correctly partition the grid with the periodic BC information. Partitions generated with SU2 v.2.0.3 can then be used with later versions. However, when running a computation with SU2 v3.0 in parallel employing a periodic BC, there is no problem using 2 cores, but for more cores, the following error occurs:

Fatal error in MPI_Sendrecv: Message truncated, error stack:
MPI_Sendrecv(230).................: MPI_Sendrecv(sbuf=0x10a5fd40, scount=2050, MPI_DOUBLE, dest=2, stag=0, rbuf=0x10a5ad30, rcount=2560, MPI_DOUBLE, src=5, rtag=0, MPI_COMM_WORLD, status=0x1) failed
MPIDI_CH3U_Receive_data_found(129): Message from rank 5 and tag 0 truncated; 21080 bytes received but buffer size is 20480


Does somebody have any idea about how to solve this problem?
Thank you, it would be great if this feature was fixed in next versions as it is a commonly used boundary condition.
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Old   March 27, 2014, 00:41
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Hi,

Thanks for the feedback on the periodic BCs. We are currently reconsidering the implementation for the periodic BCs as we begin tackling some issues related to a new high-performance strategy in the code.

In the meantime, if you are interested in modifying the code to alleviate the issue, please let us know, and we can point you in the right direction. The decomposition is controlled by the CDomainGeometry class within geometry_structure.cpp.

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