Hi!

I have a very simple mesh in gambit (2D, about 5000 tri cells, only 10 cells with an equiSize Skew higer than 0.22).

Now, exporting to and importing in Fluent is no problem. Performing a grid check is ok as well. Now, I turned the solver to axissymmetric and activate k-epsilon modell. After that, a new grid chek failed:

WARNING: non-positive volumes exist.

Waht happend???

ANY idea??

Ralf

check if your revolution axis is absolute coincident with your x-axis

and it should be only in positive direction on both axis.

Hi, thx for answer...

that might be the problem, but: First, I had the axis BC parallel to the y-axis, now it is coincident to the x-axis. But the problem still appears when i turn on the axis-symmetric solver.

Ralf

it is, but that doen't help...

check if the revolution axis lie exactly on the x-axis. a small gap about 1e-3 under the x-axis will crash the grid check

Hi!

in the domain extents it is visible: the y domain starts from -1.2 e-14 - so there are some nodes below the x-axis!!

I solved the problem - editing the msh file: exchanging all y values below 0 to 0. Another way: translating the whole mesh in y-direction.

It works fine now... but why does fluent (or gambit) produces that problem???

Ralf

hey have you checked right handed ness or left handed ness problem