Dear Sourav, You should probably contact the authors of the gmshToFoam utility: I have no idea what data/element types it supports...
Christophe > On 8 Dec 2019, at 19:33, [email protected] wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am trying to make a CFD mesh (unstructured) in Gmsh to be used in openFOAM. > I use the `gmshToFoam` utility which works, but the problem is I lose all the > boundary patches (physical groups) that I assign in Gmsh. I wish to automate > the whole process using cli but as the boundary patches are lost when > converting to foam, it is not possible anymore. > > I read in another forum that this is due to higher order elements, but no > solution was provided. My question is - > Is it possible to restrict the formation of elements to 1st order? > > I get a list of error which probably points to that all the higher order > elements are ignored (consequently openFOAM fails to read the boundary and > physical group informations): > > " > Unhandled element 1 at line 38931 > Unhandled element 1 at line 38932 > Unhandled element 1 at line 38933 > Unhandled element 1 at line 38934 > Unhandled element 1 at line 38935 > Unhandled element 1 at line 38936 > . > . > . > " > > If you know any other ways to circumvent this issue, please intimate as well. > Thanks for your kind attention, > > Regards, > > Sourav Mandal > Biomechanics Research Unit, > GIGA In Silico Medicine, > University of Liège, Belgium > http://www.biomech.ulg.ac.be > > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > [email protected] > http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh — Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
