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Which preprocessor is known to work fine with this addon export?

Open j2l opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Hello, It's more a discussion than a bug :) I noticed that this addon always only export "world" boundary, no inlet, outlet or walls, or did I miss something?

Could you please share which OpenFOAM preprocessor you use? Thank you

j2l avatar Mar 15 '22 14:03 j2l

Hi, snappyHexMeshGUI only creates OpenFOAM folder structure and dictionary files for snappyHexMesh, nothing more. You need to run blockMesh, surfaceFeatures and snappyHexMesh afterwards to actually generate the final mesh. After creating the mesh, you need to copy the mesh to your actual simulation run case folder and prepare the simulation dictionary files.

BR, Tuomo

tkeskita avatar Mar 27 '22 08:03 tkeskita

Thanks @tkeskita I'm looking for an open source integrated solution combining blockMesh, mesh generation, case prep to generate the simulation, then run OpenFOAM and follow up convergence. Some exist but are getting old (Ubuntu 16 or 18, OpenFOAM 6, etc).

j2l avatar Mar 27 '22 16:03 j2l

I haven't tested this, but there is CfdOF for FreeCAD. There seems to be a new release for it.

tkeskita avatar Apr 10 '22 05:04 tkeskita