[Bogdan90]

Hello!
I am trying to mesh entire cylinder, where I have some certain boundary condition for the inlet. This is the whole geometry for the case:
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In my project I will be only working with the part of this geometry, the right cylinder. As you can see, the actual inlet here has to be defined as a circle inside of a bigger circle. So my question is what is the easiest way to implement this kind of inlet? Do I have to mesh a cylinder inside of a cylinder and define correct patches or is there a way to mesh a cylinder and have some certain condition for the inlet patch?

Thanx in advance!

[linnemann]

Hi

First off, if you are new to OF avoid using BlockMesh.
It will give you more headaches than joy.

Instead I recommend using Salome (salome-platform.org)
It is sorta parametric cad where you can dump your setup to a python file and run it on another computer with minimal effort.

Run the script and edit dimensions to fit your needs in the python file (rename to .py and not .py.txt).

Export mesh to unv and use openfoam command ideasUnvToFoam.

I won't give you anymore hints since the official help documentation in Salome is quite good (hit F1).

[Bogdan90]

Originally Posted by linnemann

Hi

First off, if you are new to OF avoid using BlockMesh.
It will give you more headaches than joy.

Instead I recommend using Salome (salome-platform.org)
It is sorta parametric cad where you can dump your setup to a python file and run it on another computer with minimal effort.

Run the script and edit dimensions to fit your needs in the python file (rename to .py and not .py.txt).

Export mesh to unv and use openfoam command ideasUnvToFoam.

I won't give you anymore hints since the official help documentation in Salome is quite good (hit F1).

Thank you a lot for the answer! I completely agree with you that BlockMesh is a headache when it yields complex geometries. I have downloaded Salome and converted your script, which enabled me to run LES model on this geometryand it seems to be working really nice. Unfortunately after playing some hours with Salome and the geometry you 've send I still wasn't able to figure out how do I change dimensions, do I need to change them directly in the script? I would really appreciate if you could help me with that or probably point at some particular tutorial:-)

Thanks in advance

[amirhosseintaran]

hi , did you change the domain size ? if yes , then how ??
Bests.