Mesh with internal zerothickness surfaces
I'm approaching to sails computations.
I need to produce meshes that include zero-thickness wall surfaces (the sails). Has anyone experience in how can be produced the initial solid model and this kind of mesh? Thanks Michele. |
You could generate a single me
You could generate a single mesh (don't know how), collect the faces into a faceSet (using the faceSet utility) and then use the splitMesh utility to locally introduce opposing patches.
Would be nice to hear if/how you managed to create the mesh. |
Is that like a shell mesh?
Is that like a shell mesh?
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Thanks Mattijs,
I will try
Thanks Mattijs,
I will try to make some experiments. For Billy: no, it is the opposite. I would like to compute the fluid flow around zero-thickness sails (with prescribed rigid geometry). I would eventually couple the flow simulation with a sails structural behaviour (membrane for genoa and shells for more rigid sails). In practice I need linear orthotropic constitutive laws under the hypothesis of large displacements. The available FEM works only with 3d elements? Is the extension to these kind of elements straightforward? Michele. |
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