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Old   May 31, 2009, 21:43
Default FSI with time interval remeshing ?
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Hello,
I am doing a transient FSI simulation of a wing with Ansys Simulation in Workbench and CFX. and due to large deflections (the same order as the length), the mesh quality gets poorer with each time interval.
Is there a way that I can Remesh the region around the wing instead of relying on the mesh interpolator, every X time intervals ? It seems to have been done in the literature with in-house codes but Is there a relatively easy way to do it in the Ansys Suite ?
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Old   June 1, 2009, 05:53
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hi realanony87
sorry I don't know the answer,but :
would you please help me with the error"the connection between cfx and external solver has died unexpectedly" in FSI modeling in CFX????
what does this error means & how can i solve this problem?
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Old   June 1, 2009, 09:33
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It is probably due to an error from the Structural solver. Check the .out file from Ansys ( not the CFX out file) to see what went wrong. I cannot help you because it could happen due to many reasons.
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Remeshing + FSI is not currently possible with ANSYS + CFX. But there's a lots of ways to maintain mesh quality for large deflections. Using a mesh stiffness of "Increase Near Boundaries" with an exponent of say 2 would be a starting point. Then you need to look at where the mesh is folding - and change the mesh motion boundary conditions, or add subdomain mesh motion, or insert sliding interfaces etc to imporve things. Sorry i can't be more specific; the best approach is always case dependent.
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Old   September 14, 2010, 06:32
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Hello,

to play with mesh stiffness is very usefuel in case of large deflections. How is it possible, to define different mesh stiffnesses of subdomains? I just know this for a whole domain. So I have to control these complicated with if statements. Is there an easier way?

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Old   September 14, 2010, 10:04
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To get a different mesh stiffness in a subdomain you will need if() statements, but the inside()@ function should make this fairly easy, e.g.
if(inside()@subdomain1, meshstiffness1, meshstiffness2)
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stumpy, thank you very much!
this is, what i was searching for.

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Hello Stumpy,

when I try to define mesh stiffness with "inside" like your example following error occurs:

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Error processing expression 'Mesh Stiffness'. Error at position 4. The condition expression in 'if' statement is not logical valued.
Error processing expression: Mesh Stiffness = MS

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Is there something missing?


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The inside() function returns 0 or 1 - I was assuming this was enough for CFX to evaluate if it's true of false, but perhaps not. Try if(inside()@subdomain1 > 0.5, ....
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