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December 11, 2009, 03:44 |
snappyHexMesh refinement
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Vincent RIVOLA
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: France
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Dear snappyHexMesh users,
I've been playing with snappy for a few days and I am wondering something. Is it beter to start snappy with a very fine mesh as a base ans only do 1 or 2 level of refinement around my surface, or to start with a coarse mesh and then impose 6or 8 level of refinement in the snappyHexMeshDict? To give an example, let say we have a mesh at level 1 in blockMesh, the two options are: - use this mesh and chose a uniform refinement of 4 around the surface in snappy. - refine blockMesh mesh by 4 in each direction and then use snappy without refinement, or with a refinement level of 1. Not easy to explain, but i hope you'll understand. If somebody have an idea, that would be nice. Regards, Vincent |
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December 19, 2009, 14:13 |
refinement ratio
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Axel Tietjen
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Hamburg, Germany
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Hi Vincent,
the only important thing is the maximum and minimum size of our cells. When you want to set a refinement with a ratio of 1:8 towards the surface, and the cell size at the surface schould be, lets say 2mm, the initial cell size would be 16mm and the surfaceRefinement-level in sappy would be then 3. (2³=8) Since very small cells make your solution slower and more unstable, and a too coarse mesh delivers not enough information, this is a important point to think about. If you are starting with a very coarse mesh from blockMesh, snappy would need perhaps more time for the refinement iterations. But I'm not shure - perhaps you could do some experiments and post the results here. |
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