[CjjJoy]

Hello, everyone!I'm new here. I try to simulate the flange case locate in the tutorial/mesh/snappyHexMesh
First, I run the blockMesh. Than I copy the flange.stl into the fold flange/consant/triSurface. Than I run snappyHexMesh, it reported problems like below:

Create time

Create mesh for time = 0

Read mesh in = 0.02 s

Overall mesh bounding box  : (-0.03 -0.03 -0.03) (0.03 0.03 0.01)
Relative tolerance         : 1e-06
Absolute matching distance : 9.38083e-08

Reading refinement surfaces.
Read refinement surfaces in = 0.03 s

Reading refinement shells.
Refinement level 3 for all cells inside refineHole
Read refinement shells in = 0 s

Setting refinement level of surface to be consistent with shells.
Checked shell refinement in = 0.02 s

Reading features.


--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: 
Unknown file extension 

Valid types are :

6
(
bdf
eMesh
inp
nas
obj
vtk
)


    From function edgeMesh<Face>::New(const fileName&, const word&) : constructing edgeMesh
    in file edgeMeshNew.C at line 45.

FOAM exiting

So anybody know how to fix it? Thank you very much!

[Guimloute]

Hello,

I meet the exact same problem.

I thought it might come from the fact that I do not have any features.eMesh file in my case directory.
I tried to build one using the tutorials command :

surfaceFeatureExtract -includedAngle 150 surface.stl features

but I get the following error message :

Usage: surfaceFeatureExtract [OPTIONS]
options:
  -case <dir>       specify alternate case directory, default is the cwd
  -dict <file>      read control dictionary from specified location
  -noFunctionObjects
                    do not execute functionObjects
  -srcDoc           display source code in browser
  -doc              display application documentation in browser
  -help             print the usage

extract and write surface features to file

Using: OpenFOAM-2.2.2 (see www.OpenFOAM.org)
Build: 2.2.2-9240f8b967db



--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: 
Wrong number of arguments, expected 0 found 3
Invalid option: -includedAngle


FOAM exiting

Any idea?

Thanks.

[Guimloute]

Apparently the surfaceFeatureExtractDict now uses a dictionary :
http://www.openfoam.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=929

That explains my problem in making an eMesh file from the command line.
Now it runs.

CjjJoy, do you have a .eMesh file in your constant/triSurface folder?
There should be one I think. Moreover, your snappyHexMeshDict should refer to this file in the "features" sub-dictionary. Is it the case?

[mturcios777]

The usage for surfaceFeatureExtract has changed, in that it now uses a dictionary. You can see as the error message says that it expected zero arguments. If you look in system there should be surfaceFeatureExtractDict.

[crst15]

I agree with Guimloute and mturcios777, and because of that I met a problem. So far since the beginning I have used OpenFOAM 2.2.2 installed in my laptop which does not need any additional argument for surfaceFeatureExtract. Now, I have to run my case in a supercomputer with OpenFOAM 2.1.1 which surfaceFeatureExtract needs 2 arguments instead of 0. I don't know what I should include.. Any clue?

Thanks

[mturcios777]

If you run with the -help option you will see what the arguments are. Off the top of my head I think its the includedAngle and the filename of the feature

[crst15]

Originally Posted by mturcios777

If you run with the -help option you will see what the arguments are. Off the top of my head I think its the includedAngle and the filename of the feature

Hi mturcios777,

Suppose if I have more than one files of features, how can I incorporate all of them? In fact, I put each feature in a file, so that I have a lot of files just for one simulation.

Cheers

[mturcios777]

If you are running 2.1.x or older, you will need to run surfaceFeatureExtract once for each file. 2.2.x allows you to process all the files at once via the dictionary.

[crst15]

Hi Marco,

Cool. Thanks for your reply.

Currently I face a problem when trying to run my simulation in parallel. Everything run smoothly in series, but problem occurs in parallel. I got the following error messages every time I run the code:


--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
wrong token type - expected Scalar, found on line 3 the punctuation token '-'

file: /scratch/interns2013/schristian/coba48Procs/processor10/system/data::solverPerformance::epsilon at line 3.

From function operator>>(Istream&, Scalar&)
in file lnInclude/Scalar.C at line 91.

FOAM parallel run exiting


I have tried several things, but didn't work. When I tried to search for /system/data::solverPerformance::epsilon at line 3 I couldn't find that such file. Similarly for lnInclude/Scalar.C at line 91, which doesn't exits.

Is it because of a problem with MPI or OpenMPI? Do you have any clue on how to fix this problem?


Cheers