Need help wit mesh of Aorta
 

Hello everyone.

I'm working on my M.I proyect and have to do a meshing of an Aorta, I'm not an proficient user of ICEM so I've came here to ask for an advice of how to proceed to generate the mesh.

I'll upload a image of the geometry that has to be meshed.
I'm trying to generate an hybrid mesh(tetra and Hexa).
So the first thing that i do is to separate the gometry in parts as it shown in the image, and create the interfaces between the meshes.
I do all the things that are shown in tutorials (create volume, define sizes, etc)

The thing is when i try to start with blocking, I believe that i can do hexa mesh in the surfaces (cilinder_1,cilinder_2,cilinder_3,cilinder_4,aorta _1,aorta_2 and aorta_3)
which are close to a cilinder.

I need and advice about this, is this posible? or should i just mesh all in tetra?

Video showing grid topologies
 

Carlos:

Pointwise has a video showing structured (hex) meshing for an aneurysm here: http://www.pointwise.com/videos/aneurysm/

It's not exactly your geometry and it is in Pointwise, but it shows a structured grid topology that you could apply to your problem. I'm sure ICEM can also produce this grid topology, so maybe this will help.

Rick

thanks for your advice it was quite helpful.