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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0003929 | OpenFOAM | Bug | public | 2022-11-09 10:07 | 2022-11-10 14:51 |
| Reporter | maHein | Assigned To | henry | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | crash | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Platform | Unix | OS | Other | OS Version | (please specify) |
| Product Version | 10 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | dev | ||||
| Summary | 0003929: interFoam freezes with empty processors | ||||
| Description | interFoam freezes at the first time step, when run in parallel with at least one empty processor (e.g. processor with zero cells). There is no error message, it justs keeps running after calculating the Courant number but never continues any further. In contrast, simpleFoam is able to run the exact same case in parallel. At first, this problem can easily mitigated by adjusting the decomposeParDict, so no processor has zero cells. However, I have one case with dynamic mesh (refiner + distributor), where the distributor actually leads to a processor with zero cells during runtime and thus a crash/freeze. Maybe this can be considered user error. However, since there is no error message it can be very hard to tackle this issue for a user. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | I have attached a simple 2D case. Just run the Allrun script. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Can you provide funding for this development? https://openfoam.org/news/funding-2023/ |
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I expect this to be a bug which can be fixed easily. The error seems to come from the alphaCourantNo.H, which is called in interFoam.C. Here, in line 40 there is a if-statement checking whether the processor mesh has any internal faces: if (mesh.nInternalFaces()) Commenting out this line fixes the issue. So why does this case run with pimpleFoam without error? Here, the CourantNo.H is called to compute the Courant number. However, this file has no if-statement checking for internal faces, although the rest of the calculation is similar to alphaCourantNo.H. |
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Is your organisation interested in funding OpenFOAM maintenance? |
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Resolved in OpenFOAM-dev by commits e1c0207695f93a9a2feadb720c10ffff1cb6c9ce and f088d89127dc462266907b05a75ec021f3a40047 |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2022-11-09 10:07 | maHein | New Issue | |
| 2022-11-09 10:07 | maHein | File Added: exampleCase.zip | |
| 2022-11-09 10:42 | henry | Note Added: 0012869 | |
| 2022-11-10 08:48 | maHein | Note Added: 0012870 | |
| 2022-11-10 08:53 | henry | Note Added: 0012871 | |
| 2022-11-10 14:51 | henry | Assigned To | => henry |
| 2022-11-10 14:51 | henry | Status | new => resolved |
| 2022-11-10 14:51 | henry | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2022-11-10 14:51 | henry | Fixed in Version | => dev |
| 2022-11-10 14:51 | henry | Note Added: 0012872 |
