[kaka]

I have selected some cells using the cellset utility. I now need to permanently delete these cells from the mesh. How would i go about doing this?

After deleting these cells from the mesh, i need to update the boundary patches. Im using OpenFOAM v1.5. I have been through the utilities in >applications>utlities>mesh>manipulation but cannot seem to find the right utility. Which utility is the best for this problem? Would this problem be easier using the patchTool in FOAMX in v1.4.1? I have heard that it is a GUI that you can use to select any faces you are interested in?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[milleniumrider]

Hi there,

I wanted to ask if you've managed to delete the cells? If so could you let me know how, since I'm stuck on the same thing.

Cheers,
Vasu

[nikwin]

The following should work where subsetCells is a labelList. Creates a folder in current timeStep...
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word setName("subsetCells");
cellSet currentSet(mesh, setName, subsetCells);
// Create mesh subsetting engine

fvMeshSubset subsetter(U,mesh);

label patchI = -1;

subsetter.setLargeCellSubset(currentSet, patchI, true);

wordList scalarNames(1);
scalarNames[0] = "p";

PtrList<volScalarField> scalarFlds(scalarNames.size());
//extract the slice and write it in a time directory
scalarFlds.set(0, subsetter.interpolate(p));

wordList vectorNames(1);
vectorNames[0] = "U";

PtrList<volVectorField> vectorFlds(vectorNames.size());
//extract the slice and write it in a time directory
vectorFlds.set(0, subsetter.interpolate(U));

subsetter.subMesh().write();
// Subsetting adds 'subset' prefix.
forAll(scalarFlds, js)
{
Info << "subset" << scalarNames[js] << endl;
//write the scalar in the current time directory
scalarFlds[js].write();
}

forAll(vectorFlds, jv)
{
Info << "subset" << vectorNames[jv] << endl;
//write the scalar in the current time directory
vectorFlds[jv].write();
}