[eoinsturbine]

Hi,

I ran into an annoying problem when trying to mesh my wind turbine blade inside my flow domain. I repeatedly obtain mesh elements inside a part of my blade upon applying an automesh. I've rebuilt the blade several times and I still get the same problem. I have the file to hand if anyone would be willing to be so kind as to have a quick look at it. Maybe a fresh pair of eyes could see what it is that I'm overlooking. I've attached a photo of the basic setup. It features a inner semi cylinder encompassing the blade which will roatate with the blade. The outer semicylinder should remain stationary. A velocity inlet boundary condition will be applied and an outflow opposite to this.

Thanks,

Eoin

[zxin]

Are you sure that you have suppressed or deleted the wind turbine body?

[eoinsturbine]

Hi,

I've tried that but it seems to be a geometry error in the turbine. I created the turbine by joining airfoil shapes using surfaces. On close inspection, there appears to be very small holes in the geometry so I rebuilt it a couple of times and tried altering the tolerance settings in the geometry repair window. I also rebuilt the turbine using pro engineer but was also unsuccessful. Any ideas?

Thanks