Say you’re trying to split a relatively small mesh (30k nodes). If you split the mesh into more than 20, [name removed] will scream at you all kinds of errors.
but what if you want to have 30 vertical layers?
You end up with ‘overloaded’ cores, which each one handling more than the optimal amount of cells.
Would it be possible to play with your geometry file?
If you get a segmentation fault error, the classical answer is to use a build with debug options (BUILD_TYPE=Debug with the new build system), you may have more information if your computation crashes.
I tried to run the following quite simple steering files for TELEMAC-2D and TELEMAC-3D for 1, 20, 25, 40, 48, 96, 192, 284, 768 and 1536 cores and they all finish correctly.
There may be an issue with the way you install openTELEMAC.