ANSYS-to-FLUENT

Kamran

Refering to a message further below, I've also been tying to import a 3D mesh generated in ANSYS, directly into Fluent, using the file/import/ANSYS command, but with no success. Fluent manual is not much of a help here, even though it claims that this can be done!

I've gone through old messages regarding this matter in the forum. It is suggested that one should use the CDWRITE command in ANSYS to create a cdb-file. There are a number of alternatives here. I've tried the "ALL" (both of them!), "GEOM" and "CM" alternatives with the same disappointing result. It seems to be a formt missmatch some where down the line.

Dose anybody know if there are any restrictions when generating the mesh in ANSYS, in terms of node numbering or maybe element type (I used shell63 and solid45, 1:st order elements) or ...? Are there any other "tricks" to consider?

I am using ANSYS 6.0 and Fluent 6, and dont have GAMBIT or TGRID.

Answers are appriciated

//Kamran