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June 18, 2018, 10:20 |
Could use some guidance with an O-Grid
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Brandon
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Hi everyone, it's now a week since I began using ICEM CFD, I've watched a lot of tutorials, etc. as there is no one at my university to guide me and I need to use it for my Ph.D. Also this is my first time meshing stuff.
I'm on a tight schedule and I need to complete the meshing by the end of this work week and therefore am asking for help from the experts out there. I have attached all the necessary files to run the project on ICEM CFD 18.1 My aim: Have a C section inlet flow field on a rotor blade (or wing) with a flat trailing edge. What I have managed to do: I imported the geometry, created the flow field and divided the initial block into a few blocks to build a surface mesh on the blade. Watching a tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhpNHLfTGgg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ntUDvIXJM I managed to understand the process of blocking, etc. I have even refined the mesh around the leading edge with an O-grid. The problem: I have plenty of blocks on the inlet which I would like to merge before creating a new O-grid (good idea?), because as of now I created an O-grid and I'm sure it's done wrong. Alternatively, I could do something like in the video above also for the inlet and not just the leading edge, but due to the many blocks I have due to the C section as opposed to the Rectangular section of the video I do not seem to find a way to get the O-grid to work right. Also if you zoom into the leading edge, you will see that immediately in front of it, I have a H grid rather than an O-grid after my attempt to form an O-grid. Steps I followed:
P.S: I know that the section is not symmetric about the mid point in the z direction, stupid me. But I don't see that affecting the process of meshing. I will re-do it once I get the general idea right. Thanks for any help. |
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June 19, 2018, 17:04 |
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Hello there; Glad you learned something from my video. Your struggle is something everyone faced at certain stages. By a flat trailing edge I think you mean a sharp trailing edge. If you have a C section inlet with sharp trailing edge to follow the best thing to do is. 1) Create an O grid 2) Split the O grid from its diagonal edges. 3) Collapse the block right behind the sharp trailing edge. That way you will have the skewness problem resolved. By the way if you post some pictures it will be really useful and people will be more responsive as most people are too busy to download and view files. But I hope you get a resourceful help. Keep well! |
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