[skarthik]

Hi,

I am trying to run a 3D simulation in Ubuntu 14.04 of a simple geometry similar to a bullet.
The mesh was created using Salome 7.6.0 and exported to CGNS format.
When I try to convert to SU2 format using SU2_DEF, I get the following error message.

------------------- Config File Boundary Information --------------------
Far-field boundary marker(s): FlowBoundary.
Inlet boundary marker(s): Inlet.
Outlet boundary marker(s): Outlet.
Constant heat flux wall boundary marker(s): BulletWall.

---------------------- Read Grid File Information -----------------------
Reading the CGNS file: bullet2.cgns.
CGNS file contains 1 database(s).
Database 1, Mesh_1: 1 zone(s), cell dimension of 3, physical dimension of 3.
Zone 1, SMESH_Mesh: 143072 vertices, 810733 cells, 0 boundary vertices.
Reading grid coordinates.
Number of coordinate dimensions is 3.
Loading CoordinateX values into linear partitions.
Loading CoordinateY values into linear partitions.
Loading CoordinateZ values into linear partitions.
Number of connectivity sections is 5.
Loading section BAR_2 1 - 328 of element type Line.
Loading section TRI_3 329 - 8986 of element type Triangle.
Loading section BAR_2 8987 - 9066 of element type Line.
Loading section TRI_3 9067 - 17446 of element type Triangle.
Loading section TETRA_4 17447 - 828179 of element type Tetrahedron.
Successfully closed the CGNS file.

Loading CGNS data into SU2 data structures.
Three dimensional problem.
811141 interior elements.
Element type not suppported!
application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1) - process 0

Initially, I had a few thousand elements of type 'Prism'. From this page, I saw that SU2 does not support Prism elements and so I modified my mesh to have only tetrahedron elements. But still the error persists.

Please let me know what is going wrong. Thanks in advance!

[jvbustelo]

Hey Skarthik ,

I am having exactly the same issue as you were having. Created the mesh with Salome and inside it, in mesh info it says there are only Tetrahedrons. However when trying to run it in SU2 with the GMSH mesh type activated I obtain exactly the same error. Did you ever solve it? How?

Thanks in advance.

[CSMDakota]

Realizing this thread is rather old, I'm having the same problem with v6.1.0; does anyone know of a solution? (Tets-only mesh created in SALOME and exported as CGNS)

Things I've tried from reading other threads:
* It seems the CGNS_TO_SU2 option is not available in this version of SU2.
* Trying to scale the mesh per this method:

DV_KIND = SCALE
DV_MARKER = ( put here all markers of the mesh separated by comma)
DV_PARAM= (1.0)
DV_VALUE=1.0

Then run SU2_DEF.

runs into the same error: Element type not supported!

[CSMDakota]

This may be related to SALOME more than SU2. I exported a similar .cgns tet-only mesh from ANSYS and it converted OK in SU2.

[pcg]

Do you have a small example we can test?
If in a 3D mesh you have line elements your mesh is wrong and there is nothing we can do.

[pdp.aero]

Originally Posted by adwaitkm

Any fixes to this issue? I'm using SU2 version 7 and I'm running into this error while trying to execute the SU2_CFD command.

Thanks!

I assume you're using cgns format with hdf5 format. Try to convert your cgns mesh to adf using cgnsconvert or if it is possible in your grid generator.

[atelcikti1]

i used ansys mesher with cgns export with also inflation layers(prisms), i didnt have problem. there is no restriction as u said. problem about i guess with salome.