[Maxime Thomas]

Hi everybody

I've been trying to generate a mesh for hours, I'm about to succeed in doing it but apparently the mesh doesn't want to be created in one direction (the two other directions work quite well).
You'll find attached a diagram of my geometry, with the different blocks that I set in my blockmesh. Here is my problem:
Everything goes well if I set all the grading to (10 1 10) simpleGrading (1 1 1) but as soon as I change the y component to 10 for all the blocks I have this error message in the terminal:

Check topology

Basic statistics
Number of internal faces : 267
Number of boundary faces : 150
Number of defined boundary faces : 150
Number of undefined boundary faces : 0
Checking patch -> block consistency

Creating block offsets
Creating merge list

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
Inconsistent point locations between block pair 5 and 10
probably due to inconsistent grading.

From function blockMesh::calcMergeInfo()
in file blockMesh/blockMeshMerge.C at line 294.

FOAM exiting

Apparently, the mesh don't want to be created between two blocks in the y direction for the y component of the mesh. I tried to set all the blocks in a way that all the x y and z components of the mesh are similar but still, it doesn't work...
I also checked for one group of 5 blocks (for example blocks 0 to 4) and everything goes fairly well, the mesh can be created with (10 10 10) grading. As soon as I take another block in the y direction it doesn't work anymore.

Any idea?

Here is my blockMesh:

convertToMeters 1;
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... (the list is very long!)

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patches
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patch inlet
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( 125 124 131 132 )
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)
patch outlet
(
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)
);
mergePatchPairs
(
);

Hopefully somebody will be able to help me, for now I'm out of any idea to figure it out!

Thank you.

[wyldckat]

Greetings Maxime,

I don't know if you've finally manage to fix this, but I haven't checked what's wrong with it neither.

What I can offer are the following suggestions:

• Use paraFoam to diagnose what's wrong (edit: this will only work on Linux!):

  paraFoam -block

• Use the SwiftBlock plug-in for Blender: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/SwiftBlock

Good luck!
Bruno