Shifted Periodic topology
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I want to mesh a 2D propeller blade with shifted periodic topology. I have seen some post where Simon was discussing about Shifted periodic topology. He has shown some example where he has applied Shifted periodic topology to wind turbine. I understood to certain extent but I don't know how to apply shifted periodic topology to my 2D propeller blade. I have already meshed my geometry using O and C grid topologies. Firstly I created a block and made it periodic. Then I made a two horizontal split (along y-axis), one in the front of the blade and other behind the blade. And I also made two vertical split (along x-axis), one in the suction side and other in the pressure side. Then I inserted a O-block and merged the vertex in the trailing edge and converted into C-block. Then I associated the edges to the curves of the airfoil. The blocking strategy with C-Grid is shown in image 1 and the mesh is shown in the image 2. This blocking strategy works fine. But for highly stagger blade I heard it is better to with shifted periodic topology. As my geometry is periodic and it have as a different periodic boundary shape, I don't know how to create the shifted periodic topology. Actually I am trying to mesh a 3D propeller blade. Before going to 3D mesh. I think it is better if I master the meshing of 2D propeller geometry. The details of 3D propeller geometry is discussed in the below thread Propeller blade-Shifted periodic or J-Type BLOCK Here is the link for the tin and blocking file http://www.4shared.com/file/7WEA7lbg/Front_rotor.html http://www.4shared.com/file/ekJacT6x/Front_rotor.html http://www.4shared.com/file/KnzTI61V/Front_rotor.html Please help me. Thanks in advance for your guidelines. |
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Hi,
In the last post i forgot the attach the images. You can see the images in this post. |
It is done by adding a split to each side (adds two extra indices) and then collapsing all but one of the blocks in the new columns... (under merge verticies) The block you dont collapse (one on each side) is what gives you the final extra index...
Then go in and setup your periodic verticies to be shifted... |
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Simon, thanks for your suggestion. I gave an attempt to create shifted periodic topology.
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I followed the blocking strategy as shown in the image 1. Firstly, I created a 2D planar block. Then I made a vertical and horizontal split ash shown in the Image 2. Then I created a quarter O grid by by choosing the appropriate block and edges (Image 2). Again I created another quarter O grid behind the trailing edge of the airfoil (Image 3). Image 4 depicts the two quarter O grid, one in the front and other in the behind the airfoil. And I made three splits as in the image 5. Then I made the vertex periodic and associated the edges to curve. I deleted the block (1) which corresponds to the airfoil. Then I collapsed the block 2, 3, 4 (Image 1 - in the next post). Then I aligned the vertex and got a blocking as shown in image 2 - in the next post. Still I am not able to get a good quality mesh. I have high skew cells as marked in the image 3- in the next post. Simon could you please check the things that I have done. Should I want to change the blocking method. I don't know where I am going wrong. tin and blk files can be found in the below link http://www.4shared.com/file/ZhYvmqBk...odic_try1.html http://www.4shared.com/file/TBnobxP3...odic_try1.html http://www.4shared.com/file/hUUVwVX8...odic_try1.html |
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I am posting the reaming images of the previous post
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Original indices were :
1 (blue) = 1 (red) 2 (blue) 3 (red) 3 (blue) = 4 (blue) = 5 (red) 5 (blue) =6 (red) 6 (blue) =7 (red) 8 (blue) =8 (red) 2 (red) and 7 (blue) are created using the quarter o-grid!!! PS: I am not able to work on any problem as my laptop is out of order (mother board fault) and will get it on coming monday |
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Put the extra index on the other side... |
I think shifted peridoic is just equivalent to creating two to three quarter ogrids!!! Am I correct?
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You could do it with 2 or 3 (or more) PAIRS of quarter ogrids if you want to shift it more, but you always need a matching pair on the other side for periodicity. If you want to forget about periodicity (non conformal periodic), then you don't need to worry about shifting things at all. |
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Sorry I was out of station for few day. I somehow managed to mesh the geometry with shifted periodic topology. Figure 1 shows the blocking strategy.
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I tried to insert C-grid around the airfoil as shown in the figure 3. The minimum quality is 40.59 (figure 4). There is no clustering of cells as shown in the figure 2 (without C-grid). |
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But when I insert C-grid, I am not able the control the node distribution (figure 1 in this post). I just applied 35 node count to the edge which just is above the suction side of the airfoil, but this mesh count is automatically copied to the remaining edges. I have no clue how it automatically copied to the other edges.
While the block without C-grid has a nice distribution as shown in the figure 2. |
I assume that the problem with the control of node distribution is because when you run the o-grid command, all those vertices that you refer about become parallel. As a result, the number of nodes is copied through all of them.
There might be a way of controlling this in order to have more control over the mesh. Regards, César |
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I would like to know whether shifted periodic topology supports the C-grid around the airfoil. Because the problem is that when I insert C-grid around the airfoil, I am not able the control the node distribution (figure 1). I just applied 35 node count to the one edge which just is above the suction side of the airfoil, but this mesh count is automatically copied to the remaining edges. I have no clue how it automatically copied to the other edges. While the block without C-grid has a nice distribution as shown in the figure 2. With shifted periodic topology I got a nice mesh but there is clustering of nodes at the outlet section (figure 3). Is there any way to reduce the clustering of nodes? blocking files of shifted periodic topology http://www.4shared.com/file/LBQWmObk/Front_rotor.html blocking files of shifted periodic topology with C-grid around the airfoil http://www.4shared.com/file/H3AOoKVk...otor_try1.html |
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the blocks inside the airfoil are already deleted. i took a look at the blocking and was analyzing for a while, but i was not able to find out the reason why the number of nodes in one edge is reflected to the next one aside.
sorry venkatesh, let's see if simon and far give us a hint of how to solve this problem. regards. |
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I am able to understand what is happening in the mesh distribution. Edge 1-2 and 10-11 are periodic, so if I assign a edge distribution (45) to edge 1-2, it is copied to edge 10-11 because of periodicity. Since the grid lines (vertical gridline) has to run from edge 10-11 to the edge 2-3, the edge distribution of 10-11 is automatically copied to the 2-3. Since the edge 2-3 and 11-12 are periodic, the edge distribution (45) of 2-3 is automatically copied to the edge 11-12. I assigned a distribution of 22 to the edge 3-4 so it is copied to its the periodic side 12-13. Similarly for the edge 4-5 and 13-14. The edge 5-6 and 14-15 are periodic, so it has same edge distribution. Since the grid lines (vertical grid lines) has to run from edge 14-15 to the edge 6-7, the edge distribution of 14-15 is automatically copied to the 6-7. Since the edge 6-7 and 15-16 are periodic, the edge distribution (45) of 6-7is automatically copied to the edge 15-16. The same is applied for the edge 7-8 and 16-17. I assigned a distribution of 25 to the edge 8-9 so it is copied to its the periodic side 17-18. The problem is that I didn't assign any distribution to the edge 5-6, but it is automatically copies the edge distribution of 1-2 to 5-6. I don't know why it copies the edge distribution. |
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I tried to apply the same shifted periodic blocking strategy to the 3D blade. The blocking suits well for the propeller hub section (Figure1). But at the blade tip I get a highly skewed cells. Figure 2 shows the blocking at the tip of the blade. Figure 3 shows the blocking at the far-field. But I am not able to get a good quality mesh. I think I want to make several split along the span of the blade.
Should I want to do any changes in the blocking strategy?. I am waiting for your inputs. Please help me. I have uploaded the tin and blk files in the links below. http://www.4shared.com/file/RcrwfHny...grid_SPLI.html http://www.4shared.com/file/Uml0N_Ka...grid_SPLI.html |
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