Extrude 2D mesh, face names to volume names, line names to face names
Hello,
I have an axisymmetric problem which I am solving in Fluent. It appeared straight forward to me to create a 2D mesh in ICEM which I have been using for preliminary planar studies. My mostly structured 2D mesh contains multiple face zones separated and/or limited by 1D parts all of which are named. Now I would like to extrude the 2D mesh (mesh.uns, *.msh, etc) to carry out 3D calculations. Upon doing so I want
but this appears to be just about impossible to do using ICEM:
Any advise would be greatly appreciated, also on alternative meshing tools. Thank you Update 1 This is pretty much the same question and an answer mentions bar elements. Will look into it tomorrow: https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/cf...html#post69534 Update 2 Ok, so the extrusion actually works as expected when I set new side parts and volume to inherited except that the 2D faces in the original plane need to be assigned a new part manually which is ok though for they will all go into the same part and can be selected by geometry easily. The generated *.msh mesh file becomes corrupted though - I can load it into fluent, but a mesh check reveals number of errors If I save the mesh as an *.cfx5 file, load it into cfx5pre, then write a *.def definition file and load this definition file into fluent, the mesh check succeeds. This is a really cumbersome procedure. Update 3 Turned out, the names I had given some of the interior surfaces in ICEM were to blame and corresponding surfaces were loaded as interfaces which raised the mesh check error. So I have my ICEM script rename all those surfaces appropriately before exporting to *.msh and all should be fine |
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