shell meshing methods in ICEM-CFD
 

Can anybody please explain the different mesh methods for shell meshing in ICEM-CFD.

1) Autoblock 2) Patch dependent 3) Patch independent 4) shrinkwrap

and how does each affect the volume mesh types: tetra/mixed , hexadominant , cartesian with different methods: octree, delaunay, advance front or Tgrid.

none of the online tutorials were of any help.

Thank you.