[lakeat]

Hi again, I found the solution, use the normalToFace option in faceSetDic

    // Faces with normal to within certain angle aligned with vector.
    normalToFace
    {
        normal (0.309016994 0.951056516 0);     // Vector
        cos     0.000000001;       // Tolerance (max cos of angle)
    }

Note: as for zero thickness plate, set cos option a small one, (use foamToVTK -faceSet plateTmp to Check it).

What a nice day!

Daniel

[sati]

It may seem weird to answer to a post so long after it was written, but as i fell on it today, i'm thinking that maybe i could help other people having this problem.

A very simple trick to create a thin wall in an internal face is to create a point with the same coordinates than on of those which are on the internal face. Then, define the faces and the blocks as if one of the points was on one side of the face, and the other point was on the other face. This way, the mesh is identical to the one created before, exept that there is no more an intern face, and defining a wall patch there becomes trivial.

[Mojtaba.a]

Originally Posted by sati

It may seem weird to answer to a post so long after it was written, but as i fell on it today, i'm thinking that maybe i could help other people having this problem.

A very simple trick to create a thin wall in an internal face is to create a point with the same coordinates than on of those which are on the internal face. Then, define the faces and the blocks as if one of the points was on one side of the face, and the other point was on the other face. This way, the mesh is identical to the one created before, exept that there is no more an intern face, and defining a wall patch there becomes trivial.

Wouldn't this lead into a new block, which has absolute poor cells within it?

[jorkolino]

Originally Posted by mattijs

Create a connected mesh and then use

createBaffles <root> <case> <faceset>

to convert internal faces into boundaries.

mergeOrSplitBaffles <root> <case>

does the opposite: detects boundary faces sharing points and merges them into an internal face.

Don't we need createBafflesDict for that purpose?