[malte32]

Hi everyone,
I´m having real troubles trying to mesh a journal bearing with cross flow (see attachments for geometry). So far I tried connecting the inlet with the bearing using mergePatchPairs checkMesh keeps complaining (see below). Is there any better way of connection? Any help is highly appreciated!
Marleen

->Checking topology...
Boundary definition OK.
***Total number of faces on empty patches is not divisible by the number of cells in the mesh. Hence this mesh is not 1D or 2D.
Cell to face addressing OK.
Point usage OK.
Upper triangular ordering OK.
Face vertices OK.
Number of regions: 1 (OK).

Checking patch topology for multiply connected surfaces...
Patch Faces Points Surface topology
movingWall 15360 15616 ok (non-closed singly connected)
fixedWallsUp 7574 7814 ok (non-closed singly connected)
fixedWallsDown 7680 7869 ok (non-closed singly connected)
fixedWallsInlet 960 1057 ok (non-closed singly connected)
front 3072 3328 ok (non-closed singly connected)
inlet 864 913 ok (non-closed singly connected)
back 3072 3374 ok (non-closed singly connected)
backInlet1 240 279 ok (non-closed singly connected)
defaultFaces 720 785 ok (non-closed singly connected)

Checking geometry...
Overall domain bounding box (-0.050146 -0.050146 0) (0.050146 0.06 0.0665)
Mesh (non-empty, non-wedge) directions (1 1 0)
Mesh (non-empty) directions (1 1 0)
***Number of edges not aligned with or perpendicular to non-empty directions: 24223
<<Writing 13854 points on non-aligned edges to set nonAlignedEdges
Boundary openness (3.21526e-17 -3.55602e-16 8.2257e-18) OK.
Max cell openness = 2.43886e-16 OK.
Max aspect ratio = 61.9368 OK.
Minimum face area = 1.43811e-11. Maximum face area = 5.48305e-06. Face area magnitudes OK.
Min volume = 2.60136e-12. Max volume = 6.99799e-11. Total volume = 3.36905e-06. Cell volumes OK.
Mesh non-orthogonality Max: 75.3062 average: 19.3888
*Number of severely non-orthogonal (> 70 degrees) faces: 100.
Non-orthogonality check OK.
<<Writing 100 non-orthogonal faces to set nonOrthoFaces
Face pyramids OK.
***Max skewness = 9.8618, 2 highly skew faces detected which may impair the quality of the results
<<Writing 2 skew faces to set skewFaces
Coupled point location match (average 0) OK.

Failed 2 mesh checks.

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