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DesignModeler/Meshing
Workshop 7
Structural and CFD
meshes for a Tee Mixer
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Workshop 7
Goals
Training Manual
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Importing Geometry
Training Manual
Start Workbench, click on Import and select change the filter to Geometry
File.
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Importing Geometry
Training Manual
Expand the Component Systems entry at the left and drag Mesh onto the
DM instance in the project schematic. Note the linkage that appears.
WS 7-4
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Importing Geometry
Training Manual
WS 7-5
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Meshing Options
Training Manual
Generally it makes sense to choose the right options in this panel because
of time-saving.
WS 7-6
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Training Manual
Note that there are 5 parts. The four Solid entries comprise the solid
portion of the mixing tee while the body named Fluid is the fluid region.
Since we will focus first on the fluid region, right-click and suppress the
four solid bodies under geometry in the Outline.
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Training Manual
Right-click on Mesh and select Insert Method. Select the fluid body and set
the Method to Tetrahedrons and the Algorithm to Patch Conforming.
WS 7-8
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Physics Preference
Training Manual
Set the Physics Preference to CFD and the Solver Preference to Fluent.
Expand the Sizing entry and set the Max Face Size to 20 mm and the Max
Tet Size to 40 mm.
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Physics Preference
Training Manual
Expand the Inflation entry and set Use Automatic Tet Inflation to None.
This means that you will need to define inflation layers manually.
WS 7-10
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Training Manual
Right click on Mesh and select Preview Surface Mesh. The mesh resolution
of the surfaces appears to be reasonable.
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Training Manual
WS 7-12
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Training Manual
Right click on Mesh and choose Generate Mesh to create the inflated
volume mesh.
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Training Manual
Expand the Statistics Entry and set the Mesh Metrics Option to Skewness.
The maximum value of 0.849 is suitable for the Fluent Solver.
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Training Manual
Select the four solid parts under geometry in the project outline and rightclick to unsuppress them.
You might want to mesh the solids for a conjugate heat transfer calculation
in either CFX or FLUENT or perhaps for a one-way FSI calculation.
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Training Manual
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Training Manual
Right-click on Mesh in the Outline and insert a Sizing. Select the four solid
bodies in the Model View (set the selection filter to bodies if needed) and
apply the selection to the geometry.
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Training Manual
Regenerate the mesh. Note the new mesh count and quality metric.
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Training Manual
For a plain CFD simulation however you will only need the fluid portion of
the mesh. Since the solid bodies are not needed for this, suppress the four
solid bodies again.
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Training Manual
To help prepare the mesh for CFD, you will create named selections for the
3 end faces.
To create a named selection, set the selection filter to Faces, pick a face in
the Model View, right-click and choose Create Named Selection. Do this for
the low-Y face in the model using inlet-y as the Name for the Selection.
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Training Manual
Repeat this for the high-Z face (inlet-z) and the high-Y face (outlet).
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Training Manual
While still in ANSYS Meshing, click on File/Export and save the file as a
.meshdat or .msh file.
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