[snappyHexMesh] searchablePlane in snappyHexMesh

zandi · May 17, 2014, 05:42

Hi everybody
I'm doing an example of flow over a spillway in OF 2.3.0
and preparing mesh with snappyHexMesh
in dfining "geometery" by guidence of a book I itroduced a part in order to refine mesh in the next steps. this part has been introduced as a plane and defined by type of "searchablePlane" in that book.
but an error comes up with it as seen below:

--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
keyword planeType is undefined in dictionary "/home/zandi/OpenFOAM/zandi-2.3.0/run/airent22-3-93/system/snappyHexMeshDict.geometry.onSlope"

file: /home/zandi/OpenFOAM/zandi-2.3.0/run/airent22-3-93/system/snappyHexMeshDict.geometry.onSlope from line 38 to line 44.
From function dictionary::lookupEntry(const word&, bool, bool) const
in file db/dictionary/dictionary.C at line 437.
FOAM exiting

I have searched cfd-online and openFoam wiki and help manual inorder to find about such geometry, but there were no such keywords (searchablePlane).
could you please help me with that?

zandi · May 26, 2014, 14:02

it has been solved

minecraftgp · August 26, 2019, 21:44

Hi zandi,

Can you tell how did you solve this? I met the same problem when Im trying to sample the field of a plane using sampledict. The error shows

keyword planeType is undefined in dictionary "/home/minecraftgp/openFoam_case/6.3closedFillingBox/6.3.1singlePlumeTracerPosition/bbpf_sp_tracer1_t3720/system/sampleDict.surfaces"

Cheers

May 17, 2014, 05:42	searchablePlane in snappyHexMesh	#1
zandi Senior Member Fatema Zandi Goharrizi Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 158 Rep Power: 17	Hi everybody I'm doing an example of flow over a spillway in OF 2.3.0 and preparing mesh with snappyHexMesh in dfining "geometery" by guidence of a book I itroduced a part in order to refine mesh in the next steps. this part has been introduced as a plane and defined by type of "searchablePlane" in that book. but an error comes up with it as seen below: --> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR: keyword planeType is undefined in dictionary "/home/zandi/OpenFOAM/zandi-2.3.0/run/airent22-3-93/system/snappyHexMeshDict.geometry.onSlope" file: /home/zandi/OpenFOAM/zandi-2.3.0/run/airent22-3-93/system/snappyHexMeshDict.geometry.onSlope from line 38 to line 44. From function dictionary::lookupEntry(const word&, bool, bool) const in file db/dictionary/dictionary.C at line 437. FOAM exiting I have searched cfd-online and openFoam wiki and help manual inorder to find about such geometry, but there were no such keywords (searchablePlane). could you please help me with that?

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May 26, 2014, 14:02		#2
zandi Senior Member Fatema Zandi Goharrizi Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 158 Rep Power: 17	it has been solved

August 26, 2019, 21:44		#3
minecraftgp New Member Pu Gong Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: London Posts: 22 Rep Power: 8	Hi zandi, Can you tell how did you solve this? I met the same problem when Im trying to sample the field of a plane using sampledict. The error shows keyword planeType is undefined in dictionary "/home/minecraftgp/openFoam_case/6.3closedFillingBox/6.3.1singlePlumeTracerPosition/bbpf_sp_tracer1_t3720/system/sampleDict.surfaces" Cheers