[jlpelerin]

Hi Foamers,

I have a fluent mesh made with Hexpress which has some cells splitted (Hexpress makes a coarse mesh and then refines the mesh by splitting some cells. I think the name for such a mesh is non-conformal).

When running fluentMeshToFoam, I get the following error message:
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \ / O peration | Version: 1.4.1-dev |
| \ / A nd | Web: http://www.openfoam.org |
| \/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Exec : fluentMeshToFoam . . ../Geometry/ES.msh
Date : Feb 24 2009
Time : 18:57:25
Host : mccfx02.corpnet.singlebuoy.com
PID : 8083
Root : /home/SBM/jep/OpenFOAM/SBM/EsperitoSanto/Case001
Case : .
Nprocs : 1
Create time

Reading header: "HEXPRESS 2.7-1"
Dimension of grid: 3
,,Number of cells: 297279
number of faces: 1221398
Number of points: 616842
Other readCellGroupData: 1 1 4893f 1 4
Reading uniform cells
Reading points
Reading uniform faces
Reading uniform faces
Reading uniform faces
Reading uniform faces
Reading uniform faces
Reading uniform faces
Reading uniform faces
Reading uniform faces
Reading uniform faces
Reading uniform faces
Reading uniform faces
Found unknown block59
Embedded blocks in comment or unknown: (
Found end of section in unknown
Embedded blocks in comment or unknown
Found end of section in unknown
Found end of section in unknown
Read zone1:3 name:parent patchTypeID:parent
Reading zone data
Read zone1:4 name:interior patchTypeID:interior
Reading zone data
Read zone1:5 name:hull patchTypeID:wall
Reading zone data
Read zone1:6 name:bk2 patchTypeID:wall
Reading zone data
Read zone1:7 name:bk1 patchTypeID:wall
Reading zone data
Read zone1:8 name:bottom patchTypeID:mass-flow-inlet
Reading zone data
Read zone1:9 name:left patchTypeID:mass-flow-inlet
Reading zone data
Read zone1:10 name:top patchTypeID:mass-flow-inlet
Reading zone data
Read zone1:11 name:right patchTypeID:mass-flow-inlet
Reading zone data
Read zone1:12 name:sym1 patchTypeID:symmetry
Reading zone data
Read zone1:13 name:sym2 patchTypeID:symmetry
Reading zone data
Read zone1:14 name:internal_surface_30 patchTypeID:wall
Reading zone data


FINISHED LEXING




--> FOAM FATAL ERROR : Trying to add 7th face to a cell with 6 faces. Face index: 105 Current faces: 6(21785 24076 24080 24089 24092 104)

From function fluentMeshToFoam
in file fluentMeshToFoam.L at line 954.

FOAM aborting

Aborted


Is it a known bug/missing feature?
Is there a way to convert such a mesh?

Thank you,

Jean-Luc

[fra76]

If I'm not wrong, fluentMeshToFoam does not support this kind of meshes, or at least it is not so flexible.
Since your mesh is 3D, try to use fluent3DMeshToFoam. It is much better than the other one!

Francesco

[jlpelerin]

Francesco,

Thank you for your answer!

Jean-Luc

[braennstroem]

Hi Jean-Luc,

did the import work for you?

Regards!
Fabian

[sek]

Did the import work?