[Nek5000-users] Error stemming from genbox

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Thanks for looking into it Katie!

Josh

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:56 PM,  <nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> HI Josh,
>
> Yes, the current version of genbox should be set up to set the logical flags
> a little differently than before.
>
> Now, the user is able to create a .rea file for heat only simulations by
> setting the number of fields (line 3 in the .box file) to negative, so part
> of the logical flags are written out differently than before.
>
> However, it shouldn't overwrite the IFTRAN logical, that is an error.  I
> will take care of it and update the repo.
>
> Thanks!!
> Katie
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:15 PM, <nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> Neks,
>>
>> I was getting an odd error in Nek when using geometry generated from
>> the newest version of genbox (repo 718) that I did not get from repo
>> 713 (the log file from the run using genbox from repo 718 is
>> attached--the error message appears at the top).
>>
>> After comparing the two generated .rea files, I found the issue.  On
>> older versions of genbox, it seems that it took the base.rea file
>> specified and used the upper portion of it to generate the header of
>> your new .rea file.  But, on the new version, it doesn't appear to do
>> this for the logical flags.  So, the issue I was running into (while
>> running the example turbChannel) was that
>>
>> IFTRAN    T
>>
>> in base.rea was being replaced by
>>
>> IFHEAT    F
>>
>> in the generated box.rea file, where in the older version it kept them
>> the same.   Manually changing IFHEAT    F   back to IFTRAN    T
>> removed the error message and the case ran fine as normal.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this was an intentional change or not, or if anyone
>> else has run into this issue, but I thought this might help clear up
>> any confusion if anyone else runs into this same problem (took me a
>> while to figure out what exactly was going wrong :) ).
>>
>> --
>> Josh Camp
>>
>> "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do
>> nothing" -- Edmund Burke
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