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December 21, 2011, 09:02 |
Tetrahedral or Hexahedral
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Dear Ansys users
I am going to mesh a 3D geometry, this geometry is rather simple one, and consisting 2 rectangulars part, 31 tubes with 1mm diameter are coneected to them acting as inlet boundaries, (see the attached file) Geometry.png Now i am wondering that with these small tube which mesh method is better Tetrahedral or Hexahedral ? i am going to mesh it in Workbench and then do CFD analysis, |
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December 22, 2011, 05:52 |
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I agree with "Far", but don't recommend the Hexadominant method for CFD.
The Hexadominant method starts by paving quads at the walls and then marches inward with isotropic hexas which can crash somewhat badly in the middle. This is good for FEA structural analysis where most of the interesting stuff happens near the surface and uniform elements are sufficient to capture it all, but it is not good for CFD. However, if you tried Multizone (or sweep) with an inflation layer, you could get a nice combination of swept hexas that would produce a good mesh for CFD.
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December 22, 2011, 11:42 |
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What I wanted to say is "Always prefer the hexa mesh but when the quality cannot be maintained e.g. aspect ratio, skewness then it is better to switch to unstructured mesh".
Also in unimportant areas such as far-field use the unstructured mesh while using the structured mesh in boundary layer region, thereby inner mesh does not propagate in outer region. |
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December 22, 2011, 16:36 |
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December 22, 2011, 16:51 |
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Tetra is, by far, the easiest way to go and often a good way to start.
Your model looked simple enough to me that I thought MultiZone would have done nicely. Hexa is slightly better for quality and speed of convergence, but if the model is giving you trouble, go for Tetra/Prism... One other thing you could try is "CutCel" hexa. It is as automatic as Tetra, but gives majority Hexa. It does use hanging nodes though so it really only works well with Fluent. Get 14.0 though, since it was improved a lot over 13.0 both in speed and robustness, especially when used with Prism. Best regards, Simon
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December 22, 2011, 16:58 |
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There is no ""CutCel" hexa" on that? By the way how Tetra works from this point :numerical error or dissipation error ? Thank you again Regards |
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December 23, 2011, 15:45 |
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Cutcel is not quite like all the others. It is a global method, so you don't set a method on a part or body, instead just left click on "mesh" in the model tree and then look down in the details panel. You will find a pull down that lets you turn on Cutcel.
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December 20, 2012, 03:52 |
Warning in the Ansys Meshing
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Hello everybody,
I`m new in ANSYS, when I mesh some geometry in the Ansys Meshing, there is a warning: "Inflation created stairstep mesh at the some locations". What the meaning of this warning? If I use this mesh on Fluent simulation, is there any effect about this warning? Thank you very much for the reply. |
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December 20, 2012, 12:48 |
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January 14, 2013, 23:55 |
VOF models on venturi scrubber simulation
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Dear all.
My simulation is about venturi scrubber. A venturi scrubber is designed to effectively use the energy from the inlet gas stream to atomize the liquid being used to scrub the gas stream, so the gas stream will more clean. The end of the inlet water pipe there is some small nozzles. This venturi have 2 inlet and 2 outlet. Two inlet are inlet water and inlet gas. Because flow in venturi scrubber is turbulent, I make inflation in region near the venturi scrubber wall. The boundary conditions are inlet water=velocity inlet, inlet gas=velocity inlet, outlet1 and outlet2 = pressure outlet. In Fluent, I use models: Multiphase VOF, Energy Equation, and Viscous is k-epsilon. Multiphase have 2 eulerian phase, that is air and water liquid. The solution method is PISO. The absolute criteria of convergence is 1e-4 except energy (energy is 1e-6). After 7903 iteration, the simulation still not convergen. The simulation also have reversed flow in outlet1 and outlet2. Anyone can help me to solve this problem?? Is the multiphase VOF true for this problem?? Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks. I`m sorry if the discussion is out of ansys meshing topic. Best Regards Toda |
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January 14, 2013, 23:59 |
VOF models on venturi scrubber simulation
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The more attachments about my simulation.
Best Regards Toda |
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October 6, 2015, 03:57 |
Tetrahedral Mesh by workbench, element size definition
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Hello all,
I have done a simulation in structured mesh by icem, and now I am switching to see the effect of unstructured mesh (tetrahedral) on my results. I needed 1mm resolution for my structured mesh, but I don't know how to interpret this in the case of tetrahedral since it is not clear for me what the definition of element size in tetrahedral case in workbench meshing is. I would really appreciate it if anyone can help me with the deifinition, With best regards |
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October 6, 2015, 10:44 |
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October 6, 2015, 10:47 |
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Thank you so much for the reply, but my question is that what is exactly the concept of element size for unstructured grid, which edge does it refers to? or is it the third root of the cell volume? or maybe sth else?
Looking forward to hearing from you, Soheil |
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October 6, 2015, 10:50 |
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For both cases do the mesh Independence test and you will know when you get equivalency. on element level it is very much difficult (impossible) to comment for some real cases.
May be you should go for some simpler cases to compare these things such as zero pressure gradient laminar flow over flat plate. |
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