[Nek5000-users] In consistent periodic BC after prex (CAUSE TO THE PROBLEM FOUND)

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Hello Neks, 

I think I found the exact problem. 

I made two meshes for NACA0012 from same block in ICEM. 

1. Mesh with very fine refinement close to the wall. (The distance between the wall to first element in the order of -1 x 1e6 or lets say the distance between the element faces is too small) 

2. Mesh with uniform distribution.(Mesh with uniform distance between faces and in the order of -1 x 1e2) 

The mesh 1 throws the errror (when I give Auto periodic option in Prenek, the number of NFAIL is greater than zero and it never comes to zero) 

and Mesh 2 works fine. 

So I think in prenek they have set some limits to take care of this because I have seen some variables called tol. (tolerences). 

Is there anything that I can change in Prenek to take care of this problem? 

br, 

Sijo GEORGE 


De: "Sijo George" <sijo.george at eleves.ec-nantes.fr> 
À: "nek5000-users" <nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov> 
Envoyé: Lundi 18 Juin 2018 18:25:43 
Objet: In consistent periodic BC after prex 

Hi Neks, 

I did a mesh conversion from ICEM to NEK with ' ' (3 spaces) as boundary conditions instead of periodic. (It is a 3D naca profile). I tried n2to3 method for extrusion but I am not confident with that method since I already have a 3D mesh and my future works will be like that. 

So my problem is, I am trying to set periodic boundary conditions on both sides of the naca wing. I use prex for that. 

When I use prex for simple gemetries like cube and cylinder, the periodic conditions are set well. 

But when I try on NACA the periodic BCs become in consistent and it runs a loop to check the consistency and not generating rea file anymore. 

I commented some lines in source code (tools/prenek/bound.f) and tried to figure whats going on, then I generated an rea file and checked inside. 

I saw that some elements are not set with Periodic bcs. 

I understand that the loop helps to make the BC consitent. 

But could you please tell me why it happens to NACA and not for simple gemoteries. 

I am really stuck here.. 

Thank you 

Sijo GEORGE 


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