[Tensian]

Hi everyone,

I am making my first steps in snHM and I am getting crazy. Two things I don´t understand:

1. Which parameters have I to play with to preserve planes from my stl geometry in the final mesh generated by snappy? At first I increased nSmoothPatch, but doesn´t worked. I have a geometry with two plane inlets and one plane outlet and I guess it is good to preserve it. I don´t want to modify so much my stl because it´s a small geometry (so little changes can let to false simulation results...)

2.How about addLayers? I saw in the forum that a lot of people have problems with this issue (me too). I want to make the same thickness of the first layer all over the domain close to the wall, so

-relativeSizes=false
-expansionRatio=1.5
-finalLayerThickness=1e-05 (I computed it from BL theory)
-minThickness=1e-06 (a value lower than first layer thickness)

Is this OK? Snappy is not doing anything with those settings. Should I play with feature angle or ngrow?Or maybe the problem is meshQualityCOntrols (maybe the quality requirements are too high so don´t allow the creation of layers, I set it to the default values of 20,4 and 2 for maxNonOrth,maxBoundarySk and maxInternalSk).

I can attach many logs (I am making a lot of meshes by trial and error) if its needed.

Any help will be really much appreciated (I switched to sHM from Engrid because it crashes my stl geometry in same cases, due to the sharp issues...and now I am stuck with sHM too )

[gelbebanane]

Hey Tensian,
I am also new to sHM perhaps i can help you with my knowledge what i could get so far.
First of all check if the "addLayers" step is activated in your sHMDict.
Can you please attach your sHMDict file? i would say that the meshQualityControls shouldnt be the prob but better let snappy run with the option : "snappyhexmesh > log.randomname" and post this logfile also here.

Remind when you cannot attach files or get any errors change the filetype to ".txt"

Greetings

[Tensian]

Hi Phil, thanks for your reply.

I attach some snappyHexMeshDict I have used with wrong results.

Unfortunatly I don have the log file (it seems that I have runned sHM in parallel and I forgot to take it to a text file, just see it in the screen). But I will execute it again this week and then I will be able to attach the log file.

In all executions the number of faces added to layers are 0 and added layers are 0 too.I tried to use absolute sizes for layers, but failed.

Thanks.

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| o | |
| o o | HelyxOS |
| o O o | Version: v1.0.3 |
| o o | Web: http://www.engys.com |
| o | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
version 2.0;
format ascii;
class dictionary;
location system;
object snappyHexMeshDict;
}

castellatedMesh true;
snap true;
addLayers true;
geometry
{
in_left.stl
{
type triSurfaceMesh;
name in_left;
}

in_right.stl
{
type triSurfaceMesh;
name in_right;
}

out.stl
{
type triSurfaceMesh;
name out;
}

wall.stl
{
type triSurfaceMesh;
name wall;
}

}

castellatedMeshControls
{
features
(
);
refinementSurfaces
{
in_left
{
level (5 5 );
regions
{
}

}

in_right
{
regions
{
}

level (5 5 );
}

out
{
regions
{
}

level (10 15 );
}

wall
{
regions
{
}

level (8 12 );
}

}

refinementRegions
{
}

locationInMesh (0.0807128 0.0096 0.0117277 );
maxLocalCells 1000000;
maxGlobalCells 5000000;
minRefinementCells 1;
nCellsBetweenLevels 3;
resolveFeatureAngle 30;
allowFreeStandingZoneFaces false;
}

snapControls
{
nSolveIter 300;
nSmoothPatch 10;
tolerance 1.0;
nRelaxIter 5;
nFeatureSnapIter 10;
implicitFeatureSnap false;
explicitFeatureSnap true;
multiRegionFeatureSnap false;
}

addLayersControls
{
layers
{
"wall._*"{
nSurfaceLayers 5;
}
}

relativeSizes false;
expansionRatio 1.5;
finalLayerThickness 0.01;
minThickness 0.0000001;
nGrow 2;
featureAngle 180;
slipFeatureAngle 30;
nRelaxIter 5;
nSmoothSurfaceNormals 1;
nSmoothNormals 3;
nSmoothThickness 10;
maxFaceThicknessRatio 0.5;
maxThicknessToMedialRatio 0.3;
minMedianAxisAngle 90;
nBufferCellsNoExtrude 0;
nLayerIter 50;
nRelaxedIter 20;
}

meshQualityControls
{
maxNonOrtho 65;
maxBoundarySkewness 20;
maxInternalSkewness 4;
maxConcave 80;
minFlatness 0.5;
minVol 1.00E-13;
minTetQuality -1e30;
minArea -1;
minTwist 0.02;
minDeterminant 0.001;
minFaceWeight 0.02;
minVolRatio 0.01;
minTriangleTwist -1;
nSmoothScale 4;
errorReduction 0.75;
}

debug 0;
mergeTolerance 1E-6;


__________________________________________________ _____________

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| o | |
| o o | HelyxOS |
| o O o | Version: v1.0.3 |
| o o | Web: http://www.engys.com |
| o | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
version 2.0;
format ascii;
class dictionary;
location system;
object snappyHexMeshDict;
}

castellatedMesh true;
snap true;
addLayers true;
geometry
{
in_left.stl
{
type triSurfaceMesh;
name in_left;
}

in_right.stl
{
type triSurfaceMesh;
name in_right;
}

out.stl
{
type triSurfaceMesh;
name out;
}

wall.stl
{
type triSurfaceMesh;
name wall;
}

}

castellatedMeshControls
{
features
(
);
refinementSurfaces
{
in_left
{
level (7 7 );
regions
{
}

}

in_right
{
regions
{
}

level (7 7 );
}

out
{
regions
{
}

level (10 12 );
}

wall
{
regions
{
}

level (10 12 );
}

}

refinementRegions
{
}

locationInMesh (0.0807128 0.0096 0.0117277 );
maxLocalCells 2000000;
maxGlobalCells 6000000;
minRefinementCells 1;
nCellsBetweenLevels 2;
resolveFeatureAngle 30;
allowFreeStandingZoneFaces false;
}

snapControls
{
nSolveIter 300;
nSmoothPatch 5;
tolerance 1.0;
nRelaxIter 10;
nFeatureSnapIter 10;
implicitFeatureSnap false;
explicitFeatureSnap true;
multiRegionFeatureSnap false;
}

addLayersControls
{
layers
{
"wall_.*"{
nSurfaceLayers 5;
}
}

relativeSizes true;
expansionRatio 1.5;
finalLayerThickness 0.50625;
minThickness 0.0000001;
nGrow 0;
featureAngle 180;
slipFeatureAngle 30;
nRelaxIter 5;
nSmoothSurfaceNormals 1;
nSmoothNormals 3;
nSmoothThickness 10;
maxFaceThicknessRatio 0.5;
maxThicknessToMedialRatio 0.3;
minMedianAxisAngle 90;
nBufferCellsNoExtrude 0;
nLayerIter 50;
nRelaxedIter 20;
}

meshQualityControls
{
maxNonOrtho 50;
maxBoundarySkewness 2;
maxInternalSkewness 2;
maxConcave 80;
minFlatness 0.5;
minVol 1.00E-13;
minTetQuality -1e30;
minArea -1;
minTwist 0.02;
minDeterminant 0.001;
minFaceWeight 0.02;
minVolRatio 0.01;
minTriangleTwist -1;
nSmoothScale 4;
errorReduction 0.75;
}

debug 0;
mergeTolerance 1E-6;