[Heremus]

Hello,
I am new to CFD and openFOAM I am actually trying to set up my first case. But have already problems in Meshingprocess. I googled so far but didn't find an answer jet. Maybe i didn't found the right keywords...

I tried to generate a Mesh after this tutorial:
http://www.hydroniumion.de/posts/sna...mesh-tutorial/

SHM gives out following errormessage:

/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| =========                 |                                                 |
| \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |
|  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  2.2.0                                 |
|   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.org                      |
|    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Build  : 2.2.0-5be49240882f
Exec   : snappyHexMesh
Date   : Mar 17 2014
Time   : 17:37:02
Host   : "Laptop-V1S"
PID    : 30436
Case   : /home/tofu/OpenFOAM/Test/strgb3
nProcs : 1
sigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).
fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster
allowSystemOperations : Disallowing user-supplied system call operations

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

Create mesh for time = 0

Read mesh in = 0.16 s

Overall mesh bounding box  : (-20 0 -9.012) (6 5 10.988)
Relative tolerance         : 1e-06
Absolute matching distance : 3.31813e-05

Reading refinement surfaces.
Read refinement surfaces in = 0.75 s

Reading refinement shells.
Refinement level according to distance to hull.stl
    level 5 for all cells within 0.1 meter.
    level 4 for all cells within 0.4 meter.
    level 2 for all cells within 1 meter.
Read refinement shells in = 0 s

Setting refinement level of surface to be consistent with shells.
Checked shell refinement in = 0 s

Reading features.


--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR: 
keyword features is undefined in dictionary "/home/tofu/OpenFOAM/Test/strgb3/system/snappyHexMeshDict.castellatedMeshControls"

file: /home/tofu/OpenFOAM/Test/strgb3/system/snappyHexMeshDict.castellatedMeshControls from line 37 to line 72.

    From function dictionary::lookupEntry(const word&, bool, bool) const
    in file db/dictionary/dictionary.C at line 402.

FOAM exiting

My snappyHexMeshDict:

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| =========                 |                                                 |
| \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |
|  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  2.2.0                                 |
|   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.org                      |
|    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
        version 2.0;
        format ascii;
        root "";
        case "";
        instance "";
        local "";
        class dictionary;
        object autoHexMeshDict;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

// Which of the steps to run
castellatedMesh true;
snap            true;
addLayers       true;

geometry
{
     hull.stl
     {
         type triSurfaceMesh;
         name DIFUSOR;
     }
}

castellatedMeshControls
{
    maxLocalCells 10000000;
    maxGlobalCells 20000000;
    minRefinementCells 0;
    nCellsBetweenLevels 1;


    refinementSurfaces
    {
       DIFUSOR
    {
        level (4 5);
    }
    }

    resolveFeatureAngle 30;


    // Region-wise refinement
    // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    refinementRegions
    {
    DIFUSOR
    {
        mode distance;
        levels ((0.1 5) (0.4 4) (1 2));
    }
    }


    // Mesh selection
    // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    locationInMesh (6.011 8.012 3.01);

    allowFreeStandingZoneFaces true;
}



// Settings for the snapping.
snapControls
{
    nSmoothPatch 3;

    tolerance 2.0;

    nSolveIter 30;

    nRelaxIter 5;

        nFeatureSnapIter 10;

        implicitFeatureSnap true;

        explicitFeatureSnap false;
}

// Settings for the layer addition.

addLayersControls
{
layers
    {
    hull.stl_hulls
        {
        nSuraceLayers 12;
        }
    }
expansionRatio 1.2;
minThickness 0.0005;
}

meshQualityControls
{

}

// Advanced

// Flags for optional output
// 0 : only write final meshes
// 1 : write intermediate meshes
// 2 : write volScalarField with cellLevel for postprocessing
// 4 : write current intersections as .obj files
// debug 0;


// Merge tolerance. Is fraction of overall bounding box of initial mesh.
// Note: the write tolerance needs to be higher than this.
mergeTolerance 1e-6;


// ************************************************************************* //

After this error Message I can't find the word features. Or did I set some wrong Properties?
I also don't understand the command locationInMesh.

Thanks for any help!

[cutter]

Hi,

have a look at http://www.openfoam.org/docs/user/snappyHexMesh.php (Section 5.4.3) and one of the tutorial cases to learn the correct usage of the subdictionary 'features'.

'locationInMesh' is a point within your fluid domain. It allows snappyHexMesh to decide whether to mesh inside or outside the STL surface. See section 5.4.4!

Cutter