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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0003426 | OpenFOAM | Bug | public | 2020-01-10 12:04 | 2020-01-17 18:05 |
Reporter | JeroenJanssen | Assigned To | henry | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
Platform | AWS | OS | Linux Ubuntu | OS Version | 18 |
Product Version | 7 | ||||
Fixed in Version | dev | ||||
Summary | 0003426: no triangulated vtk files with cuttingPlane post processing | ||||
Description | After upgrading from OF6 to OF7, it seems that the 'triangulate' flag doesn't work anymore for the cuttingPlane postprocessor. The vtk files in the results all have meshes with faces with >=4 vertices, while the triangulate flag is set to true. All else works well (I do get triangulated vtk files for the 'patchInternalField', just not for the 'cuttingPlane'). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Jeroen | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | After finishing the simpleFoam simulations I run the command: mpirun -np 36 simpleFoam -parallel -postProcess -funcs "(surfaces)" -latestTime > log An extract of the surfaces dictionary file: ... surfaces ( extractSurface_Ground_U13 { type patchInternalField; patches (Ground Ground_Explicit Ground_Water); offsetMode uniform; offset (0 0 1.5); interpolate true; triangulate true; } cuttingPlane14_X_000 { type cuttingPlane; planeType pointAndNormal; pointAndNormalDict { basePoint (-798.600203421432 52.1308814897659 0); normalVector (0 1 -1.192093E-07); } interpolate true; triangulate true; } ) ... | ||||
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We don't have access to the case you are running, can you reproduce the issue on one of the tutorial cases? |
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Hi Henry, Thank you for your quick response. No problem, please find attached the motorBike example (I only modified the 'cuttingPlane' dictionary, where I included the triangulate true - flag as I was used to in OF6 and before, and then the decomposeDict as I ran it on 36 cores). I've also included the resulting postProcessing file for U for timestep 500. As you can see there are a few tri's in there, but most of the faces have 4 or more vertices. Hope that helps. Thanks, Jeroen motorBike.zip (16,942 bytes) U_yNormal.vtk (989,026 bytes) |
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If you set triangulate rubbish; you will find that there as no error message; there is no triangulate option in the latest cuttingPlane. However you can control the surface filtering which by default simplifies the triangulation into quads where possible but if you switch it off: filtering none; then the original triangulated surface is written. |
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Alternatively you can use the original cutting plane implementation by selecting type plane; . . . triangulate false; but this has all the limitations and quirks of that version and I would recommend that you use the new one. |
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Thanks Henry, I've tried the filtering none option you suggested, but where should I place that line? I put it within the cuttingPlane dict, both in the main body as well as within the individual plane, but there is no difference in the resulting vtk file. Still faces with 4 or more vertices. I've also tried to change the flag to rubbish and don't get any errors. Am I putting it in the correct place, or not? Thank you for your help |
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With cuttingPlane in OpenFOAM-dev use filtering none; instead and in place of triangulate true; |
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Thanks. I was using the OF7 distribution. I just installed the dev and tried and it does create a triangulated vtk, however, running the motorBike example straight out the box causes snappyHexMesh to crash... I've attached the log file for snappyHexMesh. log.snappyHexMesh (12,032 bytes) |
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I've attached the log file for snappyHexMesh that I get with OpenFOAM-dev log.snappyHexMesh.gz (15,935 bytes) |
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Hi Henry, Thanks. I've tried it again just now. Unfortunately it still crashes at the same point... I've gone through these steps this morning: - launch a fresh AWS instance with Linux Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (ami-0be057a22c63962cb) - install OpenFOAM-dev (downloaded this morning) through the command line according the instructions (https://openfoam.org/download/dev-ubuntu/) - copy the motorBike tutorial to the run folder - run ./Allrun snappyHexMesh crashes at the same location with an IOStream error: [5] --> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR: [5] incorrect first token, expected '(', found on line 0 the punctuation token '[' [5] [5] file: IOstream at line 0. [5] [5] From function Foam::Istream& Foam::operator>>(Foam::Istream&, Foam::List<T>&) [with T = Foam::Vector<double>] [5] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-dev/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/ListIO.C at line 131. [5] FOAM parallel run exiting I've gone through all the case files and compared the OF7 and OF-dev versions, they are both identical. The only small difference I can see between your and my log file is the OF Build (dev-7fdfe4224aad for mine and dev-2771c1f85c26 for yours) and I noticed that your log file has an additional line printed in line 33: SetNaN : Initialising allocated memory to NaN (FOAM_SETNAN). I've also run another tutorial windAroundBuildings. It succeeds on a single core, but crashes too in parallel with the same error. (Let me know if you'd prefer for me to raise a separate issue, as it seems this is probably not related to my original question anymore). In addition, I put a cuttingPlane in this case and can confirm that it produces triangulated vtk files (see the images attached). The meshes are not very pretty, as it introduces triangles with a very high aspect ratio between each cell. I use these triangulated .vtk files to visualise results back in Rhino (3d CAD package), which only allows for tri or quad meshes. As these vtk files are quite large usually, I expect these additional triangles will make these meshes quite heavy, it would be great to have this original triangulate flag back in the dictionaries. I hope that helps getting to the bottom of this... Thanks, Jeroen PS: Also... The interface of this site is not that great. I had to type this twice as it timed out while I was typing and finding some stuff out (the suggested back button is bringing you back to the main page and therefore all the typed input and files disappear ...) cuttingPlane_windAroundBuildings.PNG (342,414 bytes) cuttingPlane_windAroundBuildings02.PNG (599,940 bytes) log-2.snappyHexMesh (12,035 bytes) |
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You will need commit 2771c1f85c267e9925c2796b52b3ae010fae6179 Author: Henry Weller <http://openfoam.org> Date: Mon Jan 13 19:55:18 2020 +0000 coupledPolyPatch: Added initialisation of ordering_ data member Resolves bug-report https://bugs.openfoam.org/view.php?id=3428 which is more recent than commit-7fdfe4224aad. Try compiling the latest OpenFOAM-dev sources. |
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> PS: Also... The interface of this site is not that great. I had to type this twice as it timed out while I was typing and finding some stuff out (the suggested back button is bringing you back to the main page and therefore all the typed input and files disappear ...) Agreed, I have also had this problem in the past. Have you reported it to the maintainers of the Mantis software? |
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yes that worked! It's fully running and exporting the triangulated .vtk files. Thanks! ok, no, I didn't report it yet, but I will push my comment through to Mantis. |
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Resolved by commit 2771c1f85c267e9925c2796b52b3ae010fae6179 |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2020-01-10 12:04 | JeroenJanssen | New Issue | |
2020-01-10 16:36 | henry | Note Added: 0011051 | |
2020-01-13 12:28 | JeroenJanssen | File Added: motorBike.zip | |
2020-01-13 12:28 | JeroenJanssen | File Added: U_yNormal.vtk | |
2020-01-13 12:28 | JeroenJanssen | Note Added: 0011053 | |
2020-01-13 14:36 | henry | Note Added: 0011054 | |
2020-01-13 14:41 | henry | Note Added: 0011055 | |
2020-01-14 11:16 | JeroenJanssen | Note Added: 0011058 | |
2020-01-14 11:30 | henry | Note Added: 0011059 | |
2020-01-14 15:44 | JeroenJanssen | File Added: log.snappyHexMesh | |
2020-01-14 15:44 | JeroenJanssen | Note Added: 0011063 | |
2020-01-14 16:35 | henry | File Added: log.snappyHexMesh.gz | |
2020-01-14 16:35 | henry | Note Added: 0011066 | |
2020-01-17 13:00 | JeroenJanssen | File Added: cuttingPlane_windAroundBuildings.PNG | |
2020-01-17 13:00 | JeroenJanssen | File Added: cuttingPlane_windAroundBuildings02.PNG | |
2020-01-17 13:00 | JeroenJanssen | File Added: log-2.snappyHexMesh | |
2020-01-17 13:00 | JeroenJanssen | Note Added: 0011072 | |
2020-01-17 13:49 | henry | Note Added: 0011073 | |
2020-01-17 13:51 | henry | Note Added: 0011074 | |
2020-01-17 17:48 | JeroenJanssen | Note Added: 0011076 | |
2020-01-17 18:05 | henry | Assigned To | => henry |
2020-01-17 18:05 | henry | Status | new => resolved |
2020-01-17 18:05 | henry | Resolution | open => fixed |
2020-01-17 18:05 | henry | Fixed in Version | => dev |
2020-01-17 18:05 | henry | Note Added: 0011077 |