[ICEM] Help with sliding mesh

pa-dundas · March 10, 2011, 04:08

Hi all,
I’m a bit of a noob to ICEM and I’m wondering if any of ye could help me out. I’m trying to model the flow of water over a 5 blade turbine. I know I need to use a sliding mesh but I am unsure as to how I do this. Do I need to create the geometry for both the rotating section and stationary section and mesh them separately then join them together somehow before importing into Fluent. Or is the whole geometry drawn as one and the boundary conditions can be applied in fluent. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Patrick.

pa-dundas · March 10, 2011, 10:16

I've meshed it as one whole geometry, but the mesh is very poor. Anyone know how I could improve it.

March 10, 2011, 04:08	Help with sliding mesh	#1
pa-dundas New Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 15	Hi all, I’m a bit of a noob to ICEM and I’m wondering if any of ye could help me out. I’m trying to model the flow of water over a 5 blade turbine. I know I need to use a sliding mesh but I am unsure as to how I do this. Do I need to create the geometry for both the rotating section and stationary section and mesh them separately then join them together somehow before importing into Fluent. Or is the whole geometry drawn as one and the boundary conditions can be applied in fluent. Any help would be greatly appreciated Patrick.

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March 10, 2011, 10:16		#2
pa-dundas New Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 15	I've meshed it as one whole geometry, but the mesh is very poor. Anyone know how I could improve it.