[Vaidotas]

Hello,

I am quite new CFD moddelling and especially in OpenFoam. I am trying to run OpenFoam example related with wind flow in urban areas however when I trying to run wind around buildings example I face a problem. I get an error like this:

FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
Could not open "/home/vaidotas/OpenFOAM/vaidotas-4.1/run/windAroundBuildings/constant/triSurface/buildings.eMesh"

file: /home/vaidotas/OpenFOAM/vaidotas-4.1/run/windAroundBuildings/system/snappyHexMeshDict.castellatedMeshControls.features from line 43 to line 43.

From function void Foam::refinementFeatures::read(const Foam:bjectRegistry&, const Foam::PtrList<Foam::dictionary>&)
in file refinementFeatures/refinementFeatures.C at line 97.

What I am doing wrong?

Best regards,

Vaidotas

[vatavuk]

Hi Vaidotas,

In all the tutorials there is a file called Allrun this file is a script to run automatically the tutorial. If you open the Allrun file with a text editor you can see all the commands necessary to run the tutorial. To understand the commands you must know the scripting language but it's not so difficult. In the case of this tutorial you must run:
1) surfaceFeatureExtract
2) blockMesh
3) snappyHexMesh -overwrite
4) simpleFoam

Best Regards,
Paulo

[Vaidotas]

Dear Paulo,

Thank You for your answer. I tried that, but it does not work, I do not know way.. Problem disappear when I re install OpenFoam completely

[LuisPeruArq]

Originally Posted by vatavuk

Hi Vaidotas,

In all the tutorials there is a file called Allrun this file is a script to run automatically the tutorial. If you open the Allrun file with a text editor you can see all the commands necessary to run the tutorial. To understand the commands you must know the scripting language but it's not so difficult. In the case of this tutorial you must run:
1) surfaceFeatureExtract
2) blockMesh
3) snappyHexMesh -overwrite
4) simpleFoam

Best Regards,
Paulo

I have a simliar problem, when i executed "simpleFoam" appears this:

Build : v1712
Arch : "LSB;label=32;scalar=64"
Exec : simpleFoam
Date : Feb 03 2018
Time : 08:57:07
Host : "DESKTOP-4NORPPB"
PID : 572
I/O : uncollated
Case : /mnt/c/Users/Public/Documents/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/windAroundBuildings2
nProcs : 1
trapFpe: Floating point exception trapping enabled (FOAM_SIGFPE).
fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster (fileModificationSkew 10)
allowSystemOperations : Allowing user-supplied system call operations

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

Create mesh for time = 2


SIMPLE: convergence criteria
field p tolerance 0.0001
field U tolerance 0.0001
field "(k|omega|epsilon)" tolerance 0.0001

Reading field p



--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
cannot find file "/mnt/c/Users/Public/Documents/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/windAroundBuildings2/2/p"

From function virtual Foam::autoPtr<Foam::ISstream> Foam::fileOperations::uncollatedFileOperation::rea dStream(Foam::regIOobject&, const Foam::fileName&, const Foam::word&, bool) const
in file global/fileOperations/uncollatedFileOperation/uncollatedFileOperation.C at line 502.

FOAM exiting

I tried with the original file and then with a copy of the original (so You don´t think that the mistake is the number 2 after the name)....the problem is the file system (I think so)

Please, i need help (SOS)

[Antimony]

Hi,

I am not sure how you ended up with a time folder of 2. Did you run snappyHexMesh without the -overwrite option?

Simplest thing you can do is to copy the p, U, k, epsilon/omega, nut files from "0" folder to "2" folder and type simpleFoam again. I would think that should solve your problem.

Cheers,
Antimony

[LuisPeruArq]

Thank you, your suggestion has sense....I ´ve forgotten the Phrase "-overwrite"