[sameer_kumar]

Dear foamers,

I am getting following error at the time of converting from foamToVTK at the time of writing 40th iteration.

/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
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| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: 1.6 |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.org |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
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Build : 1.6-53b7f692aa41
Exec : foamToVTK
Date : May 05 2010
Time : 23:37:32
Host : localhost.localdomain
PID : 9524
Case : /home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified
nProcs : 1
SigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
Create time

Create mesh for time = 0

Time: 0
volScalarFields : p nut k epsilon nuTilda
volVectorFields : U
volSymmTensorFields : R

Internal : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/couplermodified_0.vtk"
Original cells:1039528 points:222710 Additional cells:8 additional points:4

Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/FEMALE_DESIGN/FEMALE_DESIGN_0.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/COUPLER/COUPLER_0.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/INLET/INLET_0.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/OUTLET/OUTLET_0.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/FM_PIN/FM_PIN_0.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/M_PIN/M_PIN_0.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/MALE_DESIGN/MALE_DESIGN_0.vtk"
FaceZone : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/int_FLUID/int_FLUID_0.vtk"
Time: 20
volScalarFields : p nut k epsilon
volVectorFields : U

Internal : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/couplermodified_20.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/FEMALE_DESIGN/FEMALE_DESIGN_20.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/COUPLER/COUPLER_20.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/INLET/INLET_20.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/OUTLET/OUTLET_20.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/FM_PIN/FM_PIN_20.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/M_PIN/M_PIN_20.vtk"
Patch : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/MALE_DESIGN/MALE_DESIGN_20.vtk"
FaceZone : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/int_FLUID/int_FLUID_20.vtk"
Time: 40
volScalarFields : p nut k epsilon
volVectorFields : U

Internal : "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/run/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/couplervtkfiles/couplermodified/VTK/couplermodified_40.vtk"
#0 Foam::error:rintStack(Foam::Ostream&) in "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/lib/linuxGccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#1 Foam::sigFpe::sigFpeHandler(int) in "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/lib/linuxGccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#2 Uninterpreted:
#3 Foam::writeFuns::insert(double const&, Foam:ynamicList<float, 0u, 2u, 1u>&) in "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt/foamToVTK"
#4 void Foam::writeFuns::write<double>(std:stream&, bool, Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh> const&, Foam::vtkMesh const&) in "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt/foamToVTK"
#5 main in "/home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt/foamToVTK"
#6 __libc_start_main in "/lib/libc.so.6"
#7 _start at /usr/src/packages/BUILD/glibc-2.9/csu/../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:122
Floating point exception

Please give suggestions to overcome this problem.

Regards,
Sam

[wyldckat]

Greetings Sam and welcome to the forum!

Probably at that iteration, infinite or undefined values or even NaN (Not-A-Number) values where found on the results, but it was unable to write those out-of-bound values. You could try using:

foamToVTK -ascii

but while it might not crash with foamToVTK, Paraview on the other hand might not like seeing something like "-1#INF" in the file "40.vtk".

Check the residues of your run to see if there are any alarming values, like residues in the order of 1e+300, for that same iteration.

If you are basing yourself on an existing tutorial case from OpenFOAM 1.6, I suggest that you get the 1.6.x version; no need to build it, just get it to check the same tutorial you've based on. I say this, because the motorBike case in OpenFOAM 1.6 diverges around iteration 300, while the 1.6.x motorBike version doesn't diverge, using the same simpleFoam solver from 1.6!

Best regards,
Bruno