[Marc Batlle]

Good afternoon Foamers,

These days I am facing problems to mesh a triangular shape together with rectangle the way I want. I think the best explanation comes with a representative sketch.

I attach two images, the "OP_1" is what I am looking for, and, the "OP_2" what I obtain.

I already tried to mergePatchPair unsuccesfully, wondered about splitMesh but dismissed due to a lack of information ..

Any help is welcomed

[HPE]

Any blockMeshDict, which doesn't work? Working over it might help.

[brammekeuh987]

Hi Marc

I would make two meshes: A rectangle (block1) and a parallelogram (block2). Then try to cut the parallelogram in 2, in order to get the triangle.

Cutting the mesh up, you can use splitMesh. To figure out how it works, type splitMesh -help in your terminal.
There you see something like this :

Usage: splitMesh [OPTIONS] <faceSet> <master> <slave> 
Arguments:
<faceSet>         The faces used for splitting                                                                          
<master>          The master patch name                                                                                 
<slave>           The slave patch name                                                                                
Options:                                                                                                                  
-case <dir>       Specify case directory to use (instead of the cwd)                                                    
-overwrite        Overwrite existing mesh/results files                                                                 
-doc              Display documentation in browser                                                                      
-help             Display short help and exit                                                                           
-help-compat      Display compatibility options and exit                                                                
-help-full        Display full help and exit                                                                                                                                                                                                  Splits mesh by making internal faces external at defined faceSet

At the top it says how to use it, completely on the bottom it says what it does. As you see, you need to get a faceSet.
You can use setSet for this, or topoSet. setSet does the same as topoSet, but if you google the topoSet wiki, it has a more complete explanation regarding the possibilities.
In order to define the domain, you can use a searchableBox, and make it of the dimensions so all the cells of the triangle are in there, and than filter the right faces out. I would do something like this:

cellSet of all cells in the triangle
cellSet inverted version of above cells (to invert it, you first need to copy it, and than invert it)
faceSet of the first cellSet
faceSet of the second cellSet
faceSet subset of first cellSet with second cellSet

So cut the mesh, and than use stitchMesh to stitch it.

Hope this helps!

[francescomarra]

Dear Marc,

a possible solution could be to split the triangle (that is the real problem) into three subfigures as in the attached picture.

Best regards,

Franco

TriangleMesh.png

[Marc Batlle]

Hello again and thanks for your replies,

I have been working on Bram's answer without success for the moment.

As requested, I attach a simple case only meshing the "triangle" which initially I define as a parallelogram with only 4 cells for simplicity. A topoSetDict file can also be found in /system with my interpretation from Bram's suggestions.

Thanks again.

[sadinori]

Hello Marc,

I want to create a similar mesh. Could you find a strategy for this?

Thank you

[Gzegers]

Hi,

I was having the same issue and solved the problem using francescomarra solution! Here is my blockmesdict.

Best,

Gerardo

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/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\n| ========= | |
| \ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \ / O peration | Version: 2.3.1 |
| \ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.org |
| \/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
version 2.0;
format ascii;
class dictionary;
object blockMeshDict;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
convertToMeters 1;
vertices
(
(0.143424 0.143292 -6.949927463502417)//0
(1.000188 0.143292 -6.949927463502417)//1
(1.000188 1.856396 -6.949927463502417)//2
(0.143424 1.856396 -6.949927463502417)//3
(0.143424 0.143292 -6.589941731751209)//4
(0.7145999999999999 0.143292 -6.709936975668278)//5
(0.7145999999999999 1.856396 -6.709936975668278)//6
(0.143424 1.856396 -6.589941731751209)//7
(0.143424 0.143292 -6.229956)//8
(1.000188 0.143292 -6.589941731751208)//9
(1.000188 1.856396 -6.589941731751208)//10
(0.143424 1.856396 -6.229956)//11
(1.856952 0.143292 -6.949927463502417)//12
(1.856952 1.856396 -6.949927463502417)//13
);
blocks
(
hex ( 3 2 6 7 0 1 5 4) fluido (8 8 3)
simpleGrading (1 1 1 )
hex (7 6 10 11 4 5 9 8) fluido (8 8 3)
simpleGrading (1 1 1 )
hex (2 13 10 6 1 12 9 5) fluido (8 8 3)
simpleGrading (1 1 1 )
);

edges
(
);

boundary
(

);

mergePatchPairs
(
);

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