[BleepBlorp]

Hello,

I am meshing a 3D triangular prism, or a wedge, to study the hydraulic jump formed by using the volume of fluids (VOF) method. In order to prescribe flow with a velocity, I have to assign a volume fraction of 1 to the cells that hold water. In order to do this, I need a structured grid at least to the top of the wedge.

I'm attaching a few screenshots of what I have so far. I divided the wedge into 4 regions and attempted to use the mapped face meshing procedure. This seemed to work on the outer surfaces of the wedge and the enclosure, but when I take a cross section, the grid is unstructured.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can extrude the mesh, or maybe how to cast a structured grid up to the top of the wedge?

[maurokillary13]

hi currently i have the same issue, i must mesh a triangular prism thus to simulate a incled jet impingement, i use ansys mesh for that, how you've resolved this issue?

[kjetil]

In Spaceclaim you split the body by the top surface of the wedge, then use Share topology, and then sweep the bottom part to get a structured mesh. You might get missing inflation just around the top edge, but it probably won't be a big problem if the top wedge surface has a fine resolution.