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Hi,
I faced trouble with setting up the sources and sinks in the simulation.
First of all, when I set up the sinks information in the steering file as below:

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ABSCISSAE OF SOURCES : -274707.984; -273684.838; -273893.63; -273875.279
ORDINATES OF SOURCES : 2745157.942; 2744790.636; 2745020.384; 745015.796
ELEVATIONS OF SOURCES : 220; 192.5; 173; 169.5

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The error message is obtained:
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- ERROR IN THE STEERING FILE -

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DAMOCLE: TRYING ANOTHER LANGUAGE

DAMOCLE: TRYING ANOTHER LANGUAGE

DAMOCLE: TRYING ANOTHER LANGUAGE

DAMOCLE: TRYING ANOTHER LANGUAGE

DAMOCLE: TRYING ANOTHER LANGUAGE

DAMOCLE: TRYING ANOTHER LANGUAGE

DAMOCLE: TRYING ANOTHER LANGUAGE

DAMOCLE: TRYING ANOTHER LANGUAGE

DAMOCLE: TRYING ANOTHER LANGUAGE

DAMOCLE: TRYING ANOTHER LANGUAGE
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AT LINE 9 THE KEY-WORD : GEOMETRY FILE IS UNKNOWN...
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However, when I ignore the decimal digits, it worked well.

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ABSCISSAE OF SOURCES : -274707; -273684; -273893; -273875
ORDINATES OF SOURCES : 2745157; 2744790; 2745020; 745015
ELEVATIONS OF SOURCES : 220; 192.5; 173; 169.5

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Moreover, in my study, there are 4 sinks and 1 source.

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ABSCISSAE OF SOURCES : -274707;-273684; -273893; -273875; -282054
ORDINATES OF SOURCES : 2745157;2744790; 2745020; 2745015; 2746128
ELEVATIONS OF SOURCES : 220;192.5; 173; 169.5; 246.5
WATER DISCHARGE OF SOURCES : -300; -13.5; -357.66; -33.36; 53.5

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I am pretty sure all of these points are within a domain, but the error message has occurred:
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MASS BALANCE
INITIAL MASS OF WATER IN THE DOMAIN : 165090226.57886642

SOURCE POINT 1 PUT ON POINT
-274709.96875000000 AND 2745164.5000000000
LOCATED AT 8.0661934369626920 METRES

SOURCE POINT 2 PUT ON POINT
-273685.50000000000 AND 2744799.7500000000
LOCATED AT 9.8647098284744299 METRES

SOURCE POINT 3 PUT ON POINT
-273901.06250000000 AND 2745020.2500000000
LOCATED AT 8.0663750377725432 METRES

SOURCE POINT 4 PUT ON POINT
-273875.43750000000 AND 2745012.0000000000
LOCATED AT 3.0317332089087259 METRES

SPECTRUM OR SOURCE POINT 5 OUTSIDE DOMAIN

PLANTE: PROGRAM STOPPED AFTER AN ERROR
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Due to the error message revealed that point 5 outside the domain, I change the order of each point to check the setup:

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ABSCISSAE OF SOURCES : -282054; -274707;-273684; -273893; -273875
ORDINATES OF SOURCES : 2746128; 2745157;2744790; 2745020; 2745015
ELEVATIONS OF SOURCES : 246.5; 220;192.5; 173; 169.5

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However, the same error occurred and it confirms that the points (-282054, 2746128, 246.5) and (-273875, 2745015, 169.5) are both inside the domain.
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MASS BALANCE
INITIAL MASS OF WATER IN THE DOMAIN : 165090226.57886642

SOURCE POINT 1 PUT ON POINT
-282063.21875000000 AND 2746138.7500000000
LOCATED AT 14.161491855115406 METRES

SOURCE POINT 2 PUT ON POINT
-274709.96875000000 AND 2745164.5000000000
LOCATED AT 8.0661934369626920 METRES

SOURCE POINT 3 PUT ON POINT
-273685.50000000000 AND 2744799.7500000000
LOCATED AT 9.8647098284744299 METRES

SOURCE POINT 4 PUT ON POINT
-273901.06250000000 AND 2745020.2500000000
LOCATED AT 8.0663750377725432 METRES

SPECTRUM OR SOURCE POINT 5 OUTSIDE DOMAIN

PLANTE: PROGRAM STOPPED AFTER AN ERROR
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Therefore, I would like to know that are there any limitations of sources and sinks setup?
If it is available, please help me to solve these problems.
The steering files are attached below.

Hello,

As written in the TELEMAC-3D manual in section 3.2 (steering file), one of the writing rule is "Each line cannot exceed 72 characters. However, one can start a new line as many times as one wishes provided that the keyword name is not astride two lines".

So before investigating further, please follow this rule.

Hope this helps,

Chi-Tuan

Thank you so much!
After following the guideline, the problems are solved.

Hello,

I am wondering whether telemac successfully read information from your SOURCES FILE (src_shihmen.txt). I have been attempting a time dependent pollutant load from a point source using a source file. I followed the guidelines on the user manual when I created the table/file yet telemac didn't like it.

I would like to hear your experience and highly appreciate if you can share the file you created.