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Old   September 27, 2012, 03:54
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I solved flow between two cylinders by COMSOL and now I'll do it by OF (I am beginner). I want to use makeaxialmesh utility and Gambit but I dont know define
-axis for makeaxialmesh (red line in pictures)!!
do I need to do something on gambit model ?
please guide me
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hi
I solved flow between two cylinders by COMSOL and now I'll do it by OF (I am beginner). I want to use makeaxialmesh utility and Gambit but I dont know define
-axis for makeaxialmesh (red line in pictures)!!
do I need to do something on gambit model ?
please guide me
Regards
Have a look at the axialCavity-Testcase that is in the SVN-repository. It defines exactly such a case (using the rotationDict)

Just one remark: you might prefer creating a quad-mesh instead of the triangles (and BTW: gambit is a bit of an overkill for that geometry)
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