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Forum: CFX March 17, 2015, 10:09
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Posted By Opaque
You are drawing 2D, and try to understand 3D w/o...

You are drawing 2D, and try to understand 3D w/o spatial visualization. My advice is to get paper and scissors and built a set of 8 cubes.

Use the cubes for control volume sector, and join them....
Forum: CFX March 17, 2015, 07:25
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Posted By Opaque
An element sector is always a hex sub-element;...

An element sector is always a hex sub-element; therefore, 6 faces. Of those 6 , 3 faces are interior faces within the control volume and shared with the neighbor control volume element sectors.
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Forum: CFX March 16, 2015, 21:17
Replies: 12
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Posted By Opaque
Your extrapolation to 3D seems incorrect. There...

Your extrapolation to 3D seems incorrect. There will be 3 faces within each element sector with an integration point in the middle of each face; therefore, the total number of integration points at...
Forum: CFX March 16, 2015, 19:10
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Posted By Opaque
You are confusing face integration points with...

You are confusing face integration points with the control volume mean value point. Integration points are to be used to evaluate surface fluxes.

Perhaps you are mixing cell-vertex discretization...
Forum: CFX March 16, 2015, 10:45
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Posted By Opaque
In a 2D case with only quad elements, a control...

In a 2D case with only quad elements, a control volume shares 4 quad elements. Within an element, the faces of the control volume starts at the midpoint of the edges of the element towards the center...
Forum: CFX March 16, 2015, 08:55
Replies: 12
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Posted By Opaque
That interpretation is correct in the...

That interpretation is correct in the isoparametric representation of the element.

Why do you think is wrong ?
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