[jormollo]

Hi!
I have downloaded and installed OpenFoam and Ihfoam and I have a problem with the patchField type IH_Waves_InletVelocity. My versions are Ubuntu 16.04, OpenFoam 1706 and ihFoam 1706 downloaded from http://ihfoam.ihcantabria.com/source-download/.

Both installations of OpenFoam and ihFoam finished succesfully. I am running an example of a breakwater with porous media that I also downloaded from the web prepared for OF 230_240 and I modified some patches and the mode of the operating solver from PIMPLE to PISO. However, I do not know how to solve the new problem . Thanks in advance for any advise,
Jorge.


jorge@jorge-VirtualBox:~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1706/tutorials/tutorials/OF230_240/breakwater$ ihFoam
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: v1706 |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.com |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Build : v1706
Arch : "LSB;label=32;scalar=64"
Exec : ihFoam
Date : Feb 22 2018
Time : 16:49:22
Host : "jorge-VirtualBox"
PID : 26351
Case : /home/jorge/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1706/tutorials/tutorials/OF230_240/breakwater
nProcs : 1
sigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).
fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster (fileModificationSkew 10)
allowSystemOperations : Allowing user-supplied system call operations

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

Create mesh for time = 0


PIMPLE: Operating solver in PISO mode

Reading field porosityIndex

Porosity activated
Reading porosity variables

Number of materials: 4
a = 4(0 50 50 50)
b = 4(0 1.2 2 0.6)
c = 4(0 0.34 0.34 0.34)
D50 = 4(1 0.01 0.035 0.12)
porosity = 4(1 0.49 0.493 0.5)
Transient formulation is 0

Creating fields: porosity, aPor, bPor, cPor and D50Por

Reading field p_rgh

Reading field U



--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
Unknown patchField type IH_Waves_InletVelocity for patch type patch

Valid patchField types are :

81
(
SRFFreestreamVelocity
SRFVelocity
SRFWallVelocity
activeBaffleVelocity
activePressureForceBaffleVelocity
advective
atmBoundaryLayerInletVelocity
calculated
codedFixedValue
codedMixed
cyclic
cyclicACMI
cyclicAMI
cyclicSlip
cylindricalInletVelocity
directionMixed
empty
extrapolatedCalculated
fixedGradient
fixedInternalValue
fixedJump
fixedJumpAMI
fixedMean
fixedNormalInletOutletVelocity
fixedNormalSlip
fixedProfile
fixedShearStress
fixedValue
flowRateInletVelocity
fluxCorrectedVelocity
freestream
inletOutlet
interstitialInletVelocity
kqRWallFunction
mapped
mappedField
mappedFixedInternalValue
mappedFixedPushedInternalValue
mappedFlowRate
mappedVelocityFlux
mixed
movingWallVelocity
noSlip
nonuniformTransformCyclic
outletInlet
outletMappedUniformInlet
outletPhaseMeanVelocity
partialSlip
pressureDirectedInletOutletVelocity
pressureDirectedInletVelocity
pressureInletOutletParSlipVelocity
pressureInletOutletVelocity
pressureInletUniformVelocity
pressureInletVelocity
pressureNormalInletOutletVelocity
pressurePIDControlInletVelocity
processor
processorCyclic
rotatingPressureInletOutletVelocity
rotatingWallVelocity
sliced
slip
supersonicFreestream
surfaceNormalFixedValue
swirlFlowRateInletVelocity
symmetry
symmetryPlane
timeVaryingMappedFixedValue
translatingWallVelocity
turbulentDFSEMInlet
turbulentInlet
uniformFixedGradient
uniformFixedValue
uniformInletOutlet
uniformJump
uniformJumpAMI
variableHeightFlowRateInletVelocity
waveTransmissive
waveVelocity
wedge
zeroGradient
)


file: /home/jorge/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1706/tutorials/tutorials/OF230_240/breakwater/0/U.boundaryField.inlet from line 26 to line 28.

From function static Foam::tmp<Foam::fvPatchField<Type> > Foam::fvPatchField<Type>::New(const Foam::fvPatch&, const Foam:imensionedField<Type, Foam::volMesh>&, const Foam::dictionary&) [with Type = Foam::Vector<double>]
in file /home/jorge/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1706/src/finiteVolume/lnInclude/fvPatchFieldNew.C at line 134.

FOAM exiting

[IHFOAM Team]

Hi Jorge,

I just add here the answer I already sent you in case anyone might need it:

IHFOAM boundary conditions are now implemented and released within OpenFOAM (since version v1612+) thanks to an agreement between ESI & IH-Cantabria.
(https://www.openfoam.com/releases/op...ave-generation)

You can find several tutorials in:
~/OpenFOAM-XXX/tutorials/multiphase/interFoam/laminar/waveExampleXX

If you want to use the old ihFOAM tutorials, you must just change and adapt the names of the BC's.

Best Regards,
IHFOAM Team.

[jormollo]

Thanks for your answer!
Regards,
Jorge.

[Robin86]

Hello！I meet the same problem as you. The error "Unkown IHFOAM patch problem IH_Waves_InletVelocity" happens. My version is of v1806. How can I solve this problem. Thank you!

[IHFOAM Team]

Hi Robin86

Originally Posted by Robin86

How can I solve this problem.?

Please, canyou tell me which version of IHFoam have you tried to used with OpenFOAM-v1806?

Regards,
IHFOAM Team

[Robin86]

I use OpenFoam v1806 and ihFoam v1806.

[Robin86]

I use OpenFOAM 1806 to run the IHFOAM old version tutorials. The same problem "Unknown patchField type IH_Waves_InletVelocity" appears, just like the above problem. How can I solve it? Should I change the old version tutorials BC's? Which BC needs to be changed and how to change it? I am new OpenFOAM user. Thank you!

[IHFOAM Team]

Hi Robin86,

Originally Posted by Robin86

I use OpenFOAM 1806 to run the IHFOAM old version tutorials.

There is no point in using the old version of IHFOAM with OpenFOAM-v1806.
Why? Because, IHFOAM boundary conditions are already implemented within OpenFOAM-v1806 in a more accurate and faster way than the first release.

Can I ask you why do you want to do this strange thing?

Best Regrards,
IHFOAM Team

[Robin86]

Actually, I want to run the old tutorials to understand how to monitor free surface of wave. The old tutorials realize this while the tutorials in OpenFOAM 1806 do not. How to draw the curve of wave elevation and time in specified location? Thank you!

[IHFOAM Team]

Hi Robin86,

The old tutorials realize this while the tutorials in OpenFOAM 1806 do not

We have added some monitoring tools in the controlDict (free surface sensors) to be able to track and draw the free surface elevation in time in a specific location.

Please, take a look to the end of the controlDict:

functions
{
    line
    {
        type            sets;
        libs            ("libsampling.so");
        enabled         true;
        writeControl    writeTime;
        writeInterval   1;

        interpolationScheme cellPoint;
        setFormat       raw;
        sets
        (
            line1
            {
                type    uniform;
                axis    distance;
                start   ( 1.0 0.02 0.0 );
                end     ( 1.0 0.02 0.55 );
                nPoints 1001;
            }
            line2
            {
                type    uniform;
                axis    distance;
                start   ( 2.0 0.02 0.0 );
                end     ( 2.0 0.02 0.55 );
                nPoints 1001;
            }
            line3
            {
                type    uniform;
                axis    distance;
                start   ( 3.0 0.02 0.0 );
                end     ( 3.0 0.02 0.55 );
                nPoints 1001;
            }
            line4
            {
                type    uniform;
                axis    distance;
                start   ( 5.0 0.02 0.0 );
                end     ( 5.0 0.02 0.55 );
                nPoints 1001;
            }
            line5
            {
                type    uniform;
                axis    distance;
                start   ( 7.5 0.02 0.0 );
                end     ( 7.5 0.02 0.55 );
                nPoints 1001;
            }

            line6
            {
                type    uniform;
                axis    distance;
                start   ( 10.0 0.02 0.0 );
                end     ( 10.0 0.02 0.55 );
                nPoints 1001;
            }
            line7
            {
                type    uniform;
                axis    distance;
                start   ( 12.0 0.005 0.0 );
                end     ( 12.0 0.005 0.55 );
                nPoints 1001;
            }
            line8
            {
                type    uniform;
                axis    distance;
                start   ( 14.0 0.005 0.0 );
                end     ( 14.0 0.005 0.55 );
                nPoints 1001;
            }
        );

        fixedLocations  false;
        fields
        (
            U alpha.water
        );
    }
}

Best Regards,
IHFOAM Team