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13 object snappyHexMeshDict;
16 // * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
18 // Which of the steps to run
24 // Geometry. Definition of all surfaces. All surfaces are of class
27 // - to specify refinement for any mesh cell intersecting it
28 // - to specify refinement for any mesh cell inside/outside/near
29 // - to 'snap' the mesh boundary to the surface
48 type searchableSphere;
55 type searchableCylinder;
64 // Settings for the castellatedMesh generation.
65 castellatedMeshControls
68 // Refinement parameters
69 // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
71 // While refining maximum number of cells per processor. This is basically
72 // the number of cells that fit on a processor. If you choose this too small
73 // it will do just more refinement iterations to obtain a similar mesh.
74 maxLocalCells 1000000;
76 // Overall cell limit (approximately). Refinement will stop immediately
77 // upon reaching this number so a refinement level might not complete.
78 // Note that this is the number of cells before removing the part which
79 // is not 'visible' from the keepPoint. The final number of cells might
80 // actually be a lot less.
81 maxGlobalCells 2000000;
83 // The surface refinement loop might spend lots of iterations refining just a
84 // few cells. This setting will cause refinement to stop if <= minimumRefine
85 // are selected for refinement. Note: it will at least do one iteration
86 // (unless the number of cells to refine is 0)
87 minRefinementCells 10;
89 // Number of buffer layers between different levels.
90 // 1 means normal 2:1 refinement restriction, larger means slower
92 nCellsBetweenLevels 2;
96 // Explicit feature edge refinement
97 // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
99 // Specifies a level for any cell intersected by its edges.
100 // This is a featureEdgeMesh, read from constant/triSurface for now.
104 // file "someLine.eMesh";
111 // Surface based refinement
112 // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
114 // Specifies two levels for every surface. The first is the minimum level,
115 // every cell intersecting a surface gets refined up to the minimum level.
116 // The second level is the maximum level. Cells that 'see' multiple
117 // intersections where the intersections make an
118 // angle > resolveFeatureAngle get refined up to the maximum level.
124 // Surface-wise min and max refinement level
129 // Resolve sharp angles
130 resolveFeatureAngle -1;
133 // Region-wise refinement
134 // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
136 // Specifies refinement level for cells in relation to a surface. One of
138 // - distance. 'levels' specifies per distance to the surface the
139 // wanted refinement level. The distances need to be specified in
141 // - inside. 'levels' is only one entry and only the level is used. All
142 // cells inside the surface get refined up to the level. The surface
143 // needs to be closed for this to be possible.
144 // - outside. Same but cells outside.
164 // After refinement patches get added for all refinementSurfaces and
165 // all cells intersecting the surfaces get put into these patches. The
166 // section reachable from the locationInMesh is kept.
167 // NOTE: This point should never be on a face, always inside a cell, even
169 locationInMesh (0 0 -10e-3);
171 allowFreeStandingZoneFaces false;
176 // Settings for the snapping.
179 //- Number of patch smoothing iterations before finding correspondence
183 //- Relative distance for points to be attracted by surface feature point
184 // or edge. True distance is this factor times local
185 // maximum edge length.
188 //- Number of mesh displacement relaxation iterations.
191 //- Maximum number of snapping relaxation iterations. Should stop
192 // before upon reaching a correct mesh.
198 // Settings for the layer addition.
201 // Are the thickness parameters below relative to the undistorted
202 // size of the refined cell outside layer (true) or absolute sizes (false).
205 // Per final patch (so not geometry!) the layer information
210 // Expansion factor for layer mesh
213 //- Wanted thickness of final added cell layer. If multiple layers
215 // thickness of the layer furthest away from the wall.
216 // Relative to undistorted size of cell outside layer.
217 finalLayerThickness 0.3;
219 //- Minimum thickness of cell layer. If for any reason layer
220 // cannot be above minThickness do not add layer.
221 // Relative to undistorted size of cell outside layer.
224 //- If points get not extruded do nGrow layers of connected faces that are
225 // also not grown. This helps convergence of the layer addition process
226 // close to features.
232 //- When not to extrude surface. 0 is flat surface, 90 is when two faces
233 // make straight angle.
236 //- Maximum number of snapping relaxation iterations. Should stop
237 // before upon reaching a correct mesh.
240 // Number of smoothing iterations of surface normals
241 nSmoothSurfaceNormals 1;
243 // Number of smoothing iterations of interior mesh movement direction
246 // Smooth layer thickness over surface patches
249 // Stop layer growth on highly warped cells
250 maxFaceThicknessRatio 0.5;
252 // Reduce layer growth where ratio thickness to medial
254 maxThicknessToMedialRatio 0.3;
256 // Angle used to pick up medial axis points
257 minMedianAxisAngle 130;
259 // Create buffer region for new layer terminations
260 nBufferCellsNoExtrude 0;
262 // Overall max number of layer addition iterations. The mesher will exit
263 // if it reaches this number of iterations; possibly with an illegal
267 // Max number of iterations after which relaxed meshQuality controls
268 // get used. Up to nRelaxIter it uses the settings in meshQualityControls,
269 // after nRelaxIter it uses the values in meshQualityControls::relaxed.
275 // Generic mesh quality settings. At any undoable phase these determine
279 //- Maximum non-orthogonality allowed. Set to 180 to disable.
282 //- Max skewness allowed. Set to <0 to disable.
283 maxBoundarySkewness 20;
284 maxInternalSkewness 4;
286 //- Max concaveness allowed. Is angle (in degrees) below which concavity
287 // is allowed. 0 is straight face, <0 would be convex face.
288 // Set to 180 to disable.
291 //- Minimum projected area v.s. actual area. Set to -1 to disable.
294 //- Minimum pyramid volume. Is absolute volume of cell pyramid.
295 // Set to very negative number (e.g. -1E30) to disable.
298 //- Minimum face area. Set to <0 to disable.
301 //- Minimum face twist. Set to <-1 to disable. dot product of face normal
302 //- and face centre triangles normal
305 //- minimum normalised cell determinant
306 //- 1 = hex, <= 0 = folded or flattened illegal cell
307 minDeterminant 0.001;
309 //- minFaceWeight (0 -> 0.5)
312 //- minVolRatio (0 -> 1)
315 //must be >0 for Fluent compatibility
321 //- Number of error distribution iterations
323 //- amount to scale back displacement at error points
330 // Flags for optional output
331 // 0 : only write final meshes
332 // 1 : write intermediate meshes
333 // 2 : write volScalarField with cellLevel for postprocessing
334 // 4 : write current intersections as .obj files
338 // Merge tolerance. Is fraction of overall bounding box of initial mesh.
339 // Note: the write tolerance needs to be higher than this.
343 // ************************************************************************* //