[jgil9]

Hi all,
I am new to Open Foam and Hope you can give me a little hand, my research requires me to model a steady state turbulent case using cyclic boundaries in parallel. Seemed to me that the case motorBike was a good start, and though it handles the cyclic BC in a single processor snappy crashes in multiple processors. I have tried preservePatchs but no luck. I have also read that cyclicAMI could be a solution... I tried and though I get past snappy it crashes in potentialFoam. I have been stuck here for some time and would really appreciate some help.
Thanks In Advanced

[jgil9]

Hi Bruno,
I have been trying to Apply Cyclic or CyclicAMI boundaries to the motorBike case with no success. I a farily new to OpenFoam and for my research, I need to apply Cyclic boundaries in a decomposed domain for a k-omeaga model, therefore motorbike fit the bill except for the cyclic boundaries. I appreciate the guidance.
Sincerely
JC

[wyldckat]

Hi JC,

I've moved these posts of yours to a single thread, to make it easier to answer and to keep the discussion in a single thread

Have a look into this thread: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post392721 - namely post #9. There you'll see an example case on how you can add cyclic patches, after meshing with snappyHexMesh.
In other words, you first should mesh without cyclic patches and only after the mesh is complete is when you can add the cyclic patches to it.

Best regards,
Bruno

[jgil9]

Thanks Bruno, A couple of weeks or so after I posted the initial question I stumbled on an alternative solution. I was able to run snappy with cyclic boundaries but on a single processor and only decomposing before running the solvers. I will take a look at your suggestion though!
Do you then suggest to blockMesh, topoSet, decompose, run snappy in parallel, reconstructParMesh and the createPatch?

Thanks for the help, sorry for delayed response.
JC

[wyldckat]

Hi JC,

Originally Posted by jgil9

Do you then suggest to blockMesh, topoSet, decompose, run snappy in parallel, reconstructParMesh and the createPatch?

If you run this command:

createPatch -help

you'll see that you can also run createPatch in parallel, which means that you can run it before reconstructParMesh

Best regards,
Bruno

[jgil9]

Bruno,
Thanks for the tip , I have set up the case and ran it, but I have been getting an error in createPatch, Face 3616 specified in set is not an external face of the mesh. I believe I have followed the example case you recommended. I don't mean to impose and I and I a very great-full for the time you have already devoted to this thread but I attaching the case file and I would greatly appreciate your input.
Thanks
JC

[wyldckat]

Hi JC,

The problem with creating the sets before using snappyHexMesh is that the locations of the face indexes will be completely lost, as shown in the attached image.
I used:

reconstructParMesh -constant

after snappyHexMesh ran in parallel.
Then ran paraFoam and chose to see only the sets.

Given how you are defining the base mesh, you have two possibilities:

1. Either you change "blockMeshDict" to create the 6 walls as patches. Then after sHM, use createPatch to change these patches to walls.
2. Or you can use topoSet and createPatch before sHM for creating those patches. Then after sHM, use createPatch again to change the patches to cyclics.

Best regards,
Bruno

[jgil9]

Hi Bruno,
Thanks! Still have not been able to crack this problem. Tried both suggestions but with no luck, I am attaching the case with suggestion no. 1. As per your recommendation I changed blockMeshDict and then tired to create new cyclic patches after running sHM, but have been running into a point matching problem (though I turned off pointsync, and/or relaxed the matchTolerance) I also played around with the separation vector.
Thanks JC

[wyldckat]

Hi JC,

OK, not much time for seeing your case, so here are two examples:

• Creating cyclic patches with createPatch: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post392721 post #9
• http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post398703 - see both posts #12 and #14

Best regards,
Bruno

[jgil9]

Hi Bruno,
I can't thank you enough for your help... really! And I know you must be an extremely busy person (I respect that and try not to waste your time... I had read and tried to use cyclicAMI before, and though that using your suggestion of createPatch might do the trick). Using ciclicAMI the run gets passed sHM and patchSummary which is great but crashed in potentialFoam with a continuity error

So only when you have time... here is the case file for cyclicAMI

A very great-full forum user!
JC

[wyldckat]

Hi JC,

Unfortunately something strange is going on with this mesh.
Attached is what should work, but doesn't.

I suggest that you step back a few steps and start by trying to mesh without the motorbike, because I think the bike is introducing several issues into the mesh, leading createPatch to not be able to create the cyclic patches.

Best regards,
Bruno