[ANSYS Meshing] ATTN: Far, Simon, Stuart, Ali : Quad mesh in ICEM

davidwilcox · January 9, 2014, 15:27

Hi,
Does ICEM allow us to do a 3d quad mesh? I do not want a tet mesh for my 3d geometry. I am modelling an urban area and the blocking method would be too time consuming if not difficult. Can anybody help?

Thanks

diamondx · January 10, 2014, 12:39

you can generate the tet mesh and transorm it to quad ! or when using the delaunay, check the box next to "create a hexa-core mesh"

kad · January 10, 2014, 15:20

You can generate a 3d hexa mesh by extruding an all quad 2d surface mesh. This method works for 2.5d geometries and I have successfully applied it for a genereric city enviroment. It is described in this thread: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ans...787-prism.html

Note: under 5) it should be "all appropriate objects" not "all appropriate visible objects". Further I attached some screens of the mesh for one block of houses from the generic city enviroment.

January 9, 2014, 15:27	ATTN: Far, Simon, Stuart, Ali : Quad mesh in ICEM	#1
davidwilcox Senior Member david Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 142 Rep Power: 13	Hi, Does ICEM allow us to do a 3d quad mesh? I do not want a tet mesh for my 3d geometry. I am modelling an urban area and the blocking method would be too time consuming if not difficult. Can anybody help? Thanks

January 10, 2014, 12:39		#2
diamondx Super Moderator Ghazlani M. Ali Join Date: May 2011 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 1,385 Blog Entries: 23 Rep Power: 28	you can generate the tet mesh and transorm it to quad ! or when using the delaunay, check the box next to "create a hexa-core mesh" davidwilcox likes this. __________________ Regards, New to ICEM CFD, try this document --> https://goo.gl/KAOIwm Ali

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