Professional Documents
Culture Documents
14.5 Release
Introduction
Workshop Description This workshop will introduce the different workflows available when meshing an assembly when different meshing goals are sought. Learning Aims This workshop will cover how to: Extract the fluid volume only from a set of open solid assemblies
How to generate a mesh for conjugate heat transfer where there is only one type of solid material
How to generate a mesh for conjugate heat transfer where there are multiple solid materials
Release 14.0
Open the Fluent Launcher by clicking the Windows Start menu, then selecting Fluent. 14.5
in the Fluid Dynamics sub-menu of the ANSYS 14.5 program group. Enable Meshing Mode under Options. Set Working Directory to the area where files are Click OK to start Fluent in meshing mode.
Release 14.0
Enable Save PMDB in the File group box. Select mm in the Length Unit drop-down list. Select Conformal Tessellation in the Tessellation group box.
Specify values of 1 and 10 for Min Size and Max Size, respectively. Enable Edge Proximity and select 2 Cells Per Gap Retain the selection of Import Named Selections in the Named Selection group box. Click Apply and close the CAD Advanced Options dialog box. Click Import in the Import CAD Geometry dialog box. Close the Import CAD Geometry dialog box.
Release 14.0
General Workflow
The General Workflow is: -Import CAD
-Close Holes/Gaps
-Set Sizing Functions -Extract Edges -Wrap
Model Preparation
-Sew
-Improve -Volume Mesh
-Clean
-Export to Solver
5 2011 ANSYS, Inc. December 21, 2012
Release 14.0
Geometry Overview
Once the CAD import is complete, click on Manage Select all the objects in the Objects list and click Draw
Release 14.0
Geometry Observations
We can make the following observations about our model: It has conformal mesh There are four independent solids
Release 14.0
Release 14.0
Release 14.0
10
11
Release 14.0
12
Release 14.0
13
2 3
14
Release 14.0
15
We are doing this to ensure that the high curvature bolt-holes are resolved correctly as the default of 18 is conservative to give coarse default mesh
16
Release 14.0
17
Release 14.0
18
Release 14.0
19
Release 14.0
If the position is satisfactory, then click Create and the material point will be created. Click List to see a list of active material points.
20
Release 14.0
De-select and then re-select Draw to re-render the new Material Point
Name the new point as flow-volume-alt You see that the material point is at the centroid of the Face Zone selected Click Create and then List to list the available material points
21
Release 14.0
Having multiple material points for the same volume does not pose any issues but should we elect to eliminate one, please type the following text command on your Fluent window
/meshing/material-point/delete-material-point Type flow-volume-alt when prompted for a fluid zone name
22
Release 14.0
We shall now explore the different workflows that are available to get to a fully connected surface mesh for volume meshing
23
Release 14.0
-Create a Material Point that resides in the space where Fluid with flow (Done in Model Preparation stage) -Extract the Fluid volume using the Fluid Surface approach with either cut-wrap or shrink-wrap -Grow prisms in the Fluid Region and a Volume mesh using Auto Mesh
24
Release 14.0
Click Wrap
25
Release 14.0
26
Release 14.0
27
Release 14.0
28
Release 14.0
After Improve
29
Release 14.0
Click Activate
Click Close
30
Release 14.0
You see that only the Boundary zones in the group that we activated are listed.
Select them and click Plot
31
Release 14.0
Click Delete
32
Release 14.0
33
Release 14.0
34
Release 14.0
35
Release 14.0
36
Release 14.0
37
Release 14.0
We would need to
-Create a material point to represent the Flow (done in Model Preparation stage) -Wrap all solid materials together to create a single solid material
-Sew the single solid material with the caps to create a unified model
-Mesh using Auto Mesh
38
Release 14.0
39
Release 14.0
Multiple Solids
40
Release 14.0
41
Release 14.0
The process will take a few minutes depending on the speed of your computer. When done a new object named sew-model will appear on the Objects list. Click Draw
Note: The single solid is made up of separate faces but it is a single object without dividing walls between the previously existing individual solids.
42
Release 14.0
43
Release 14.0
44
Release 14.0
45
Release 14.0
Click Mesh
46
Release 14.0
47
Release 14.0
48
Release 14.0
Click on Wrap
Select all objects in the Objects list Select Individual Object Surfaces under Target Select cut-wrap under Method NOTE: we can do the same process with shrink-wrap as well. Click Wrap
49
Release 14.0
Once done a set of wrapped objects, prefixed with wrapSelect these objects and click Draw
50
Release 14.0
51
Release 14.0
Click Sew
52
Release 14.0
Once over, select the sew-object from the list of Objects and click Draw
Use the Clipping Plane functionality to view the model with the YZ plane Observe that the geometry is now fully connected between solids by mutual Face Zones
53
Release 14.0
54
Release 14.0
55
Release 14.0
56
Release 14.0
Click Apply under Zone Specific Growth (applies zone specific growth to boundaries)
Click Apply at the bottom of the panel (Global apply for all tabs) Click Close to return to the Auto Mesh panel
2011 ANSYS, Inc. December 21, 2012 Release 14.0
57
58
Release 14.0
59
Release 14.0
60
Release 14.0
The Manage Objects contains only our final mesh type object. Original geometry and wrapped objects are removed
61
Release 14.0
62
Release 14.0