[Gmsh] Dimensions in Gmsh & 3th parties software ...

[F. A. Portela]

Hi Cris,

After using *gmshToFoam* your channel should have a height of 1186.84 m
(since, as far as I know, Gmsh doesn't distinguish units); you can check
this by running the *checkMesh* utility and looking at the "Overall domain
bounding box" line.

You can scale the whole mesh using the utility
transformPoints<http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/TransformPoints>
with
the "-scale" option. (there a thread on this topic
here<http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam-meshing-open/72332-gmsh-units.html>
)

I assume you should also be able to do this within Gmsh using the *Dilate*
 transformation.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Felipe




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Felipe Alves Portela
MSc student in Aerospace Eng. at TU Delft
http://www.linkedin.com/in/felipealvesportela


On 11 June 2013 13:58, Cris G <schroedinger.cat.is.not.here at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> the following might be a silly question, however I found it crucial for my
> modeling.
>
> Background:
> I have received a *.geo file which contains a channel whose height H is
> 1186.84 (in the CAD file this height H is measured in mm).
>
> I will use OpenFOAM 2.1.1 in order to run my simulations, hence I will
> make use of the "gmshToFoam" application to convert the Gmsh file (*.msh)
> into an OpenFOAM mesh. In addition, I know that the natural units of
> OpenFoam are the MKS system (meter, kilogram, second), thus this leads to
> my question:
>
>
> Question:
> Once my OpenFOAM mesh is generated by "gmshToFoam", for OpenFoam the
> height H of the channel will be 1186.84 meters or 1186.84 mm?
>
> Best regards,
> Cris
>
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