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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am trying to model an aerofoil by creating a hybrid mesh in Gmsh and solving it in OpenFoam. When I try to run the ‘gmshToFoam’ converter I get warnings which are then presented as errors when using checkMesh. I have copied the first
few error lines below:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">FOAM Warning :
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<p class="MsoNormal">From function Foam::polyMesh::polyMesh(const Foam::IOobject&, Foam::pointField&&, const cellShapeList&, const faceListList&, const wordList&, const wordList&, const Foam::word&, const Foam::word&, const wordList&, bool)
in file meshes/polyMesh/polyMeshFromShapeMesh.C at line 592
Found 3653 undefined faces in mesh; adding to default patch.
Finding faces of patch 0
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<p class="MsoNormal">Finding faces of patch 1
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<p class="MsoNormal">--> FOAM Warning : Not using gmsh face 4(4 414 446 16) since zero vertex is not on boundary of polyMesh --> FOAM Warning :
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<p class="MsoNormal">From function int main(int, char**) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in file gmshToFoam.C at line 1549 Could not match gmsh face
4(4 414 446 16) to any of the interior or exterior faces that share the same 0th point --> FOAM Warning : Not using gmsh face 4(414 415 447 446) since zero vertex
is not on boundary of polyMesh --> FOAM Warning : <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From function int main(int, char**) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in file gmshToFoam.C at line 1549 Could not match gmsh face
4(414 415 447 446) to any of the interior or exterior faces that share the same 0th point<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This error then repeats several times, and then it seems to successfully find faces for the rest of the patches.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The checkMesh error is ‘Unused points found in the mesh, number unused faces:...’<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My geometry file is attached to this email.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nick<o:p></o:p></p>
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