[EFoster2]

Hey all,

I am trying to make a pipe network for my dissertation this year. So far I have just been creating simple singular rectangular pipes using helyxOS. I am now trying to expand that so I have a bifurcating network as shown in the attachments and try and achieve the level of refinement in the corners as shown in the mesh refinement photo.

I have had two ideas so far and that would be to create a stl of the geometry and snap to it or create lots of surface/volume regions. I reckon the former might be a bit more computationally intensive than the later but since I have very little experience with linux and openFoam in general that's where my ideas run out altogether.

I was wondering if anyone on this forum would be able to give their opinions on what might be the best out of the two options and briefly describe the steps they would take to accomplish this geometry? Bare in mind computational resources are pretty limited as I am in the middle of building a new pc and only have my laptop.

I appreciate any help I get.

Euan!