[saddy]

Hey foamers
i am working on a problem with a cylinder with tetrahedral mesh created in gambit. pic is attached below.
i want to know whether refinement is possible near the wall region, say a circular patch from the walls, can this be done using Refinemesh -dict utility???
plzz helppp

[saddy]

oh hell yeah its possible just did it.....

[Tomatenbart]

Would be nice if you could share it with us. So if someone comes to the same problem, he/she knows what to do.



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[saddy]

actually i have a cylinder
i have to refine the mesh along the circumference
so i created annular to cell in toposetdict
and hybrid structured/unstructured mesh in gambit
then i used use hextopology to cut the cells in all three directions and refined from 0.1 milion cells to 2million cells using refinemesh utility

this is my refinemesh dict


/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: plus |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.com |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
version 2.0;
format ascii;
class dictionary;
location "system";
object refineMeshDict;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

set c0;

coordinateSystem global;

globalCoeffs
{
tan1 (1 0 0);
tan2 (0 1 0);
normal (0 0 1);
}

directions ( tan1 tan2 normal );

useHexTopology yes;

geometricCut no;

writeMesh no;


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



this is my toposetdict
/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: plus |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.com |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
version 2.0;
format ascii;
class dictionary;
location "system";
object topoSetDict.1;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

actions
(
{
name c0;
type cellSet;
action new;
source cylinderAnnulusToCell;
sourceInfo
{
p1 (0 0 0);
outerRadius 0.012;
p2 (0 0 0.144);
innerRadius 0.009;
}
}
);

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

first load your gambit mesh to openfoam using gambittooam3d -scae 0.001 etc..just see the command guys

next run this commands[allrun file ] to read toposetdict and refinemesh

#!/bin/sh
cd ${0%/*} || exit 1 # Run from this directory

# Source tutorial run functions
. $WM_PROJECT_DIR/bin/tools/RunFunctions

refineMeshByCellSet()
{
while [ $# -ge 1 ]
do
if [ ! -e log.refineMesh.$1 ]
then
echo "Creating cell set for primary zone - $1"
cp system/topoSetDict.$1 system/topoSetDict
topoSet > log.topoSet.$1 2>&1

echo "Refining primary zone - $1"
refineMesh -dict system/refineMeshDict -overwrite \
> log.refineMesh.$1 2>&1
fi
shift
done
}

//restore0Dir

//runApplication blockMesh
refineMeshByCellSet 1 2 3 4 [// 1,2,3,4 depend on no times you want to refine]

//#echo "mapping fields from 2D throttle case"
//#runApplication mapFields ../throttle -sourceTime latestTime



//runApplication decomposePar
//runParallel $(getApplication)
//runApplication reconstructPar

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#


i have attached the results
this refinement is for all 3 directions

[samuel_rff]

You don't solve the post.
How use refineMesh with tetra?