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March 26, 2014, 06:05 |
Hybrid mesh merging issues
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Francisco
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Hi everybody,
I'm trying to make an hybrid mesh consisting on an external hex mesh and an internal tet mesh around two bodies (picture 1 and 2). There's a symmetry plane reducing the domain in half. I make the hex mesh and the tet mesh separately (with the same node number in the common edges), I merge both meshes and try to use the edit mesh/Merge nodes/Merge meshes option, choosing the common surfaces as the merging interface. It gives me several error message: Unhandled element type HEXA_8 0 vertices included 0 vertices removed I am trying to include edge 13444 13442 but vertex 13444 isn't even in the region 1 And finally erases the surrounding hex elements (see picture 3). Anybody can tell me which is the problem? How can I make a conformal interface between the hex and the tet mesh? And also, I've decided to continue with the non-conformal mesh, setting the interfaces as internal walls, but when I open it in Fluent I got the following warning: Warning: Inappropriate zone type (interior) for one-sided face zone 2. Changing to wall. Then I cannot change the type back to internal. Why do I get only one-sided faces? How can I fix that? Any comment is highly appreciated! Thanks in advance. |
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March 26, 2014, 11:46 |
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The interface should contain only quad_4 and tri_3 elements. I don't know why ICEM is finding hexa_8 there. So it could be a problem of wrong parts.
It is important that the interface in both domains have the same name e.g. MERGE. When merging the meshes you only select this one surface part. This part should not contain any other mesh or geometry. As hex/tet merging only works well with nearly quadriliteral elements on the interface, there can also be a problem in the near wall region. In general element shape there is strongly non quadriliteral, because of the high resolution of the boundary layer. Btw. your geometry looks pretty doable for blocking. |
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March 26, 2014, 17:17 |
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And so it is, only quad and tri.
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I tried at first a blocking strategy but the two bodies are too close and I don't know how to solve that. How would you do it? I attach the project, geometry, blocking, and both meshes in the link below. So you can check where the problem is. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...o_symmetry.zip Thanks a lot! |
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March 27, 2014, 08:48 |
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In your case I think there are two major problems. First your tet mesh contains prism. The merge tool can not handle these elements. No prism elements are allowed at the interface. There are some threads around here that say cou can do it with a workaround, but I don't know if this gives you satisfying results. The second point I have already stated above. One obvious solution would be to make an all tet/prism mesh. You can also try the cutcell mesher in workbench, if you want to go for hexa. It should be able to produce a good mesh for this geometry. |
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March 28, 2014, 08:17 |
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I wonder if using the cutcell method in ansys workbench it is possible to choose areas with different densities as in regular meshing method. Thanks! |
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