Tips on converting a mesh in Fluent to OpenFOAM and handling "shared edge" patches?
I converted the fluent mesh using fluent3DMeshtoFoam . It worked well. But when I do a checkMesh I see a patch called "multiply connected (shared edge)". See below:
Patch Faces Points Surface topology
zone:1:1 8103 16206 ok (non-closed singly connected)
top_surface 4266 8532 ok (non-closed singly connected)
side_surface 10126 20217 ok (non-closed singly connected)
bottom_surface 3667 7326 ok (non-closed singly connected)
zone:1_1 1452 1427 multiply connected (shared edge)
This patch corresponds to a place where the mesh has coindicent mesh with another volume. Is there a way to delete this patch without having to delete it in Fluent? Or can I tell openfoam to make this patch internal and let fluid flow between it?