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Old   June 19, 2006, 13:50
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I've got a simple pipe geometry. Everytime I'm creating an ogrid i got negative volumes/elements on the inlet and outlet surfaces. the pre-mesh looks perfect but the pre-mesh quality check show me these elements, also i cant see them normally. What am I doing wrong. The geometry surface normals show all outside the domain. Please help me, its urgent.
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Old   June 19, 2006, 16:03
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Run the mesh checker/fixer.
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Old   June 20, 2006, 02:33
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I did. No change.
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Old   June 20, 2006, 05:43
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Post picture of your geometry/topology and resulted mesh
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Old   June 20, 2006, 07:32
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It almost sounds like you have pancaked blocks at the ends of the pipe. When you do the O-grid make sure you add the faces at the pipe ends so the O-grid passes through the ends.

If you turn on the Blocks make sure you don't have 0-thickness blocks at the ends of the pipe. If it turns out that you do - you can delete them.
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Old   June 20, 2006, 08:22
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Thank you myron. I found those pancaked blocks. Now the mesh is as fine as it looks like.
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