[sita]

Hi all,

I've been using velocity ramping to start my OF7 interFoam simulations for a while now, without too much trouble so far. However, in my most recent simulation, OpenFOAM suddenly no longer recognises the keyword "duration" in the "scale" entry in 0/U and fvOptions:

[0] --> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR: 
[0] Illegal dictionary entry or environment variable name "duration"
Valid dictionary entries are 
2
(
type
start
)

The strangest thing is that, when I go back to one of my previous cases and re-run it, they all still run without complaint. I'm fairly sure that there aren't any differences in how I defined the velocity ramp in my current case (in fact I foamClone'd it from one of the previous cases). The only difference I can think of is that, in this problematic case, I'm using a mesh created by SnappyHexMesh, while in all the other cases I used meshes imported from an external mesher. But I can't see how that would influence OF's behaviour regarding scale functionObjects.

Can anyone help me with this?

Many thanks,
Sita

P.S. For sake of completeness, I've also included the contents of my 0/U and fvOptions files below

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
  =========                 |
  \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox
   \\    /   O peration     | Website:  https://openfoam.org
    \\  /    A nd           | Version:  7
     \\/     M anipulation  |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
    version     2.0;
    format      binary;
    class       volVectorField;
    location    "0";
    object      U;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
#include        "../constant/refValues";

dimensions      [0 1 -1 0 0 0 0];

internalField   uniform (0 0 0);

boundaryField
{
    atmosphere
    {
        type            pressureInletOutletVelocity;
        value           uniform (0 0 0);
    }
    inlet
    {
        type            uniformFixedValue;
        value            $internalField;
        uniformValue    
        {
            value        (#neg $Uref 0 0);
            type         scale;
            scale
            {
                type    quarterSineRamp;
                start    0;
                duration $duration;
            }
        }
    }
    outlet
    {
        type            outletPhaseMeanVelocity;
        alpha           alpha.water;
        value           $internalField;
        UnMean          
        {
            value        $Uref;
            type        scale;
            scale
            {
                type        quarterSineRamp;
                start        0;
                duration    $duration;
            }
        }
    }
    bottom
    {
        type            symmetryPlane;
    }
    side
    {
        type            symmetryPlane;
    }
    midPlane
    {
        type            symmetryPlane;
    }
    hull
    {
        type            movingWallVelocity;
        value           uniform (0 0 0);
    }
}


// ************************************************************************* //

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
  =========                 |
  \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox
   \\    /   O peration     | Website:  https://openfoam.org
    \\  /    A nd           | Version:  dev
     \\/     M anipulation  |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
    version     2.0;
    format      ascii;
    class       dictionary;
    location    "constant";
    object      fvOptions;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
#include    "refValues";

limitU
{
    type            limitVelocity;
    active            yes;
    selectionMode    all;
    max                50;
    duration         1000000.0;
}

velocityRamping
{
    type        accelerationSource;
    active      on;
    selectionMode all;
    U           U;
     velocity
    {
        type    scale;
        scale
        {
            type        quarterSineRamp;
            start       0;
            duration    $duration;
        }
        value    (#neg $Uref 0 0);
    }
}

[sita]

Update: by replacing the "duration" keyword in fvOptions in one of my old cases (one that did run) by "banana", I noticed that in the case that's throwing errors, OpenFOAM seems to be looking for "scale" in a different location.

In the working cases OpenFOAM looks in lnInclude/dictionaryTemplates.C, while in my problematic case it looks in db/dictionary/primitiveEntry/primitiveEntry.C

Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong here?

Many thanks,
Sita