About the Meshing process
Hi,
1) everybody is talking about the time effort to have a good mesh. I am wondering, why it is so time consuming, to build up a good mesh? Because the meshing itselt is normally done automatically? So is the main challenge in meshing basically to get a waterproofed geometry? So for CFD you need to create a surface mesh of the geometry. This is for example done in Ansa. Here the challenge is, that if I get my geometry of for example Catia, then when I load it in Ansa, there will be a huge mess because there are intersecting surfaces and holes, so that you first have to fix this, in order to create the waterproofed surface mesh? 2) The first step in a CFD Simulation is to create a surface mesh, right? So if I have my geometry I can use Ansa or ICEM to create this mesh. If I have made my mesh I can afterwards use it both in CCM+ , OpenFOAM, PowerFlow, ... , is this right? I only have to watch out, that it is exported the right Format? Thank you for your help :) |
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Thanks for your quick response
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I would like to agree that the challenging part of creating a good quality CFD mesh for a complicated geometry is creating first a watertight closed surface.
Intersecting parts, closing gaps and holes, finding leaks, proximities etc. Once this is done, then surface and volume meshing is automated. In ANSA there are many tools to create watertight geometries and indeed this is the most time consuming part of the process. There are of course alternative approaches, such as surface wrapping to create a watertight surface mesh, but you may lose some accuracy as this is a more draft approach. Once you have the watertight geometry in ANSA you should use Batch Mesh to create surface mesh, layers and volume mesh in an automated manner. Surface meshing in ANSA automatically resolves all the features (curvature, sharp edges, proximities etc) and you have complete control of the process. Of course for solvers like Powerflow, Xflow and other non NS codes, you only need a surface mesh. |
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Thanks to all of you for your participation in this Topic - it's very important for my understanding |
The are two different volume meshing approaches:
One is creating the volume mesh by growing it from the surface mesh, the traditional ANSA approach The other approach is octree based meshing where the volume mesh does not concide with the surface mesh. The surface mesh there is only used as a description of the geometry. Octree volume meshing creates a new surface mesh. In both cases however you need a surface mesh, whether this is good quality CFD mesh for growing volume mesh from it, or a simple STL mesh as a description of the geometry. You can read geometry in StarCCM but even star would have to create a surface mesh before generating the volume mesh. The surface must first be discretized in shell elements in order to be volume meshed by any of the two approaches. Finally if you create a surface mesh in ANSA you can also create a volume mesh in it and then output to StarCCM just for the solution. |
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