[bastil]

Hi group,

I would like to add some feedback from my experiences with OF tools in comparison to commercial tools concerning memory requirements:

I made a 45 Mio cells tetra mesh using STAR-CCM+ un a 16 GB Workstation and tried to convert it to FOAM using ccm26toFoam. This worked. However, checkMesh and polyDualMesh ran out of memory. Is there a rule of thumb for memory requirement for the OF tools?

BastiL

[fra76]

It mainly depends on the application...
I noticed that, for example, renumberMesh takes much more memory than checkMesh.
In any case you can reduce the memory requirements by using single precision tools, in case you run out of memory.

Francesco

[mattijs]

checkMesh constructs all possible addressing (have a look at primitiveMesh) which is very expensive. Most solvers (and probably ccm26ToFoam) will only use a small subset of addressing (no edge or point addressing) so are much cheaper.

[Tobias Adam]

Hello everyone,
really old thread, but I think it fits to the topic :-)
I made a funny experience with the memory requirement of polyDualMesh.
When I ran this utility without any options chosen like e.g. -overwrite it ran out of memory.
But when I use the option doNotPreserveFaceZones it works!

Best reagards

[tjliang]

Originally Posted by fra76

It mainly depends on the application...
I noticed that, for example, renumberMesh takes much more memory than checkMesh.
In any case you can reduce the memory requirements by using single precision tools, in case you run out of memory.

Francesco

Hello,

Could you please tell me how to determine the memory usage of opfenfoam? Thanks.

Best regards,

Peng
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Dear all,

I am writing an application for a cluster usage permition. In the application i need to declare how much memory i need for openfoam parallel simulation. Could someone tell me how to check Openfoam memory usage when running parallel simulations, thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Peng

[wyldckat]

Originally Posted by tjliang

Could someone tell me how to check Openfoam memory usage when running parallel simulations, thanks in advance.

Quick answer: My rule of thumb is that it requires roughly 1GB per 1 million cells.
You should do some tests with OpenFOAM tutorials that are similar to the case you are using and check how much RAM each application or solver needs in your cases, because the RAM needed varies with the solver and the type of mesh.