[sukratu]

Looks like the lexing is okay as it says. Whats happening later? I have copied the message I get below

/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \ / O peration | Version: 1.4.1 |
| \ / A nd | Web: http://www.openfoam.org |
| \/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Exec : fluentMeshToFoam . schannel ../Ser_D_1mm_Rc-2_366720_Pave.msh
Date : Mar 05 2008
Time : 14:42:58
Host : sukratu.cms.unipune.ernet.in
PID : 4878
Root : /home/sukratu/OpenFOAM/sukratu-1.4.1/run/mycase1/icoFoam
Case : schannel
Nprocs : 1
Create time

Dimension of grid: 3
Number of points: 375719
Reading points
number of faces: 1108888
Reading mixed faces
Reading mixed faces
8(5f9 bf0 4 3Reading mixed faces
Reading mixed faces
Reading mixed faces
Number of cells: 366720
Other readCellGroupData: 2 1 59880 1 4
Reading uniform cells
Read zone1:2 name:fluid patchTypeID:fluid
Reading zone data
Read zone1:3 name:perioidc_shadow patchTypeID:shadow
Reading zone data
Read zone1:4 name:perioidc patchTypeID:periodic
Reading zone data
Read zone1:5 name:interior patchTypeID:interior
Reading zone data
Read zone1:6 name:wall patchTypeID:wall
Reading zone data
Read zone1:8 name:default-interior patchTypeID:interior
Reading zone data


FINISHED LEXING


dimension of grid: 3
Creating shapes for 3-D cells
Building patch-less mesh...--> FOAM Warning :
From function polyMesh::polyMesh(... construct from shapes...)
in file meshes/polyMesh/polyMeshFromShapeMesh.C at line 577
Found 17456 undefined faces in mesh; adding to default patch.
done.

Building boundary and internal patches.
Creating patch 0 for zone: 3 start: 1 end: 1528 type: shadow name: perioidc_shadow


--> FOAM FATAL ERROR : fluent patch type shadow not recognised.#0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) in "/home/sukratu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/lib/linuxGccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#1 Foam::error::abort() in "/home/sukratu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/lib/linuxGccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#2 main in "/home/sukratu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt/fluentMesh ToFoam"
#3 __libc_start_main in "/lib/libc.so.6"
#4 __gxx_personality_v0 in "/home/sukratu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt/fluentMesh ToFoam"


From function fluentToFoam::main(int argc, char *argv[])
in file fluentMeshToFoam.L at line 1330.

FOAM aborting

Aborted

[fra76]

You have shadow surfaces in your Fluent mesh (i.e., internal faces set as wall). Try fluent3DMeshToFoam. It should handle them!

Francesco

[sukratu]

Nope. Looks like the 3D solver is facing trouble too

Here is what I did and the message it gave.


[sukratu@sukratu icoFoam]$ fluent3DMeshToFoam . schannel ../Ser_D_1mm_Rc-2_366720_Pave.msh
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \ / O peration | Version: 1.4.1 |
| \ / A nd | Web: http://www.openfoam.org |
| \/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Exec : fluent3DMeshToFoam . schannel ../Ser_D_1mm_Rc-2_366720_Pave.msh
Date : Mar 07 2008
Time : 10:07:58
Host : sukratu.cms.unipune.ernet.in
PID : 3549
Root : /home/sukratu/OpenFOAM/sukratu-1.4.1/run/mycase1/icoFoam
Case : schannel
Nprocs : 1
Create time



--> FOAM FATAL ERROR : Do not understand characters:

From function fluentMeshToFoam::lexer
in file fluentMeshToFoam.L at line 703.

FOAM exiting

[mattijs]

You probably have DOS linefeeds instead of Unix linefeeds. Try running something like dos2unix to convert the file.

[sukratu]

Looks like there were dos linefeeds because dos2unix did process the files. However, the
error persists when I use Fluent3DMeshtoFoam
(as well as FluentMeshtoFoam which I tried just in case that went through for some reason).