[ciaci88]

Hi,
I am trying to run my first tutorial about the cavities, but I have to many doubts and morever the code does not work. This openfoam version is running in windows 10.

This is my code:

C:\Program Files (x86)\ESI\OpenFOAM\1606>"C:\Program Files (x86)\ESI\OpenFOAM\1606\Windows\Scripts\of_start_c ontainer.exe" -Arguments "C:\Program Files\Docker Toolbox\;C:\Program Files\Git\bin"
Starting "default"...
Machine "default" is already running.
of_plus_1606
[ofuser@default ~]$ mkdir -p $FOAM_RUN
[ofuser@default ~]$ cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS $FOAM_RUN
[ofuser@default ~]$ cd $FOAM_RUN/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity/cavity
[ofuser@default cavity]$ ls
0 constant system
[ofuser@default cavity]$ cd constant
[ofuser@default constant]$ ls
transportProperties
[ofuser@default constant]$ cd polyMesh
bash: cd: polyMesh: No such file or directory


Now my questions are:

1) Where can I find this folders (tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity/cavity)on my computer?
2) Where can I find the polymesh file?
3)Why Openfoam cannot find polymesh file?

Thank you in advance

[Dipsomaniac]

1) It should be in your default user directory.
2) Run the blockMesh application to generate the polyMesh directory, including the files relating to the generated mesh.
3)it doesn't exist yet till you run your blockMesh application.

[ciaci88]

Hi Dipsomaniac, thank you very much for your help
1) Can you specify the path of the default user directory?
2) How can I run the blockMesh application to generate the polyMesh directory? This step is missing in the tutorial

[ciaci88]

This is the only folder that I have found related to Openfoam. I cannot find any folder with the tutorials in this folders. Should I search in an other folder?
screenshot.jpg

Which command should I type to run polyMesh?

[khedar]

You have to run 'blockMesh' command from the 'cavity' directory. This will create a directory called 'ployMesh' in 'constant' where all the mesh info will be stored. After doing this you should be able to see this directory.