Fluent Meshing 14.5 WS5 Basic Workflows

Workshop 5: Basic Workflows
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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
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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.
Starting Fluent in Meshing Mode
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Import the CAD Geometry

File Import CAD...
Ensure that Import Single file is enabled. Select the file WS5_T-junction-demo.agdb Enable Import Curvature Data from CAD. Retain the value of 1 for Scale Factor and the selection of body in the One zone per drop-down list, respectively. Click the Advanced... button to open the CAD Advanced Options dialog box.
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.
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General Workflow
The General Workflow is: -Import CAD
-Close Holes/Gaps
-Set Sizing Functions -Extract Edges -Wrap
Model Preparation
Exact process depends on desired outcome
-Sew
-Improve -Volume Mesh
Surface Mesh Generation
-Clean
-Export to Solver
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Geometry Overview
Once the CAD import is complete, click on Manage Select all the objects in the Objects list and click Draw
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Geometry Observations
We can make the following observations about our model: It has conformal mesh There are four independent solids
There is no object representing the fluid volume

There are no caps There is a gap between two objects Solid-1 and Solid-2
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Model Preparation-Gap Removal

Zoom in the gap area. We would like to measure the gap distance Click in the Graphics Window and use the hot key Ctrl+N to activate the node selection filter Using RMB select two mesh nodes which roughly oppose each other. The nodes will be marked with a red circle around them. The node IDs show up in the Fluent window (numbers may not match) With the two nodes use the hot keys Ctrl+D to calculate the distance between these two nodes. We will use 5mm as the representative gap distance
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Click on Objects Manage Select the objects in the Objects list and observe the type in the Object Type pull down menu. These are geom type objects, which is the default type object after geometry import The Gap Removal tool that we are about to use does not work with geom type objects as these are assumed to be disconnected, so we need to change the object type to wrap to allow this. Select all the objects, select object type wrap and then click Change Type.
Click Yes to the pop-up window/question
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Click on Remove Gaps The Remove Gaps panel opens Switch to zone filter using ctrl+Z hot key. Ensure no entities are selected in the window by clearing selections using F2 hot key. Select the Face Zones solid-1 and solid-2 as shown using RMB in the graphics window Hit the hot key ctrl+B to select objects in the list based on selected faces in the graphics Click List to see relative priorities Note we could decide which boundary is moved by choosing Low to High or High to Low based on this priority information. Here we will just take the default. Enter 5 in the field for Gap Distance Click Remove
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Before Gap Removal
After Gap Removal
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Model Preparation-Create Caps

We will need to create three cap surfaces Two of them will represent Velocity Inlets and one them will represent a Pressure Outlet
Click on Caps under Create as shown

Choose all objects and click Draw
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Type inlet under the Object Name field Select velocity-inlet under Type Select Edge under the Entity Type (this will also set the selection filter to edge type) Select Create Edges to automatically extract edges for the capping object at creation Select Auto Redisplay (updates graphics automatically after cap creation)
Zoom close into the area numbered 1 in the previous slide.

RMB select one of the edges at the inlet. The selected edge is marked with bold red color (the circle in the image is for better identification of the edge-any edge along the edge of the inlet would serve the purpose Click Create
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Fluent creates and re-meshes a cap at the inlet. Follow the same procedure for the caps needed in areas 2 and 3. For area 2 specify inlet2 for Object Name and velocity-inlet for Type For area 3 specify outlet for Object Name and pressure-outlet for Type
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Generate Size Functions

We need to create sizing functions in preparation for meshing. Click on Create Size Functions in the task page In the Size Functions panel, under Global Controls modify the entries as shown in the figure and click Apply Click Create Defaults to create a default set of sizing functions The default size functions appear in the list. We will now modify some of them to better address the features of our particular model Select all the Boundary Zones in the list and click Draw. Then click Draw Sizes to show min/maxsizes in the graphics.
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Select the default-edge-curvature enter 10 under Normal Angle and click Change.
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
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Perform the same step as before, this time selecting the default-face-curvature and specifying the same Normal Angle 10. Click Change Click Close
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Material Point Creation

Click on Objects and then Manage and select only the solid-1 object. Click Draw. Use ctrl-a hot key to centre the graphics
Click on Create Material Point in the task page

Click on the graphics window and then type Ctrl+N hot key to active the node selection filter
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With RMB click select two nodes in such a way that the middle point of the line connecting them falls clearly in the open volume and it is not very close to the solid. Rotate the model as needed
First Point Second Point
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Type flow-volume in the Name field Click Compute. This calculates the coordinates of the mid-point of the line connecting the two selected nodes. Note that the numbers you see may differ from those shown Click on Draw. The material point is now rendered in the graphics window as shown here
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.
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Material Point Creation-Alternate Approach

Alternatively, click on the graphics window and then type Ctrl+Z to active the Zone selection filter RMB click on the object and then click Compute
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
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Material Point Creation-Alternate Approach

CAUTION: the alternate approach may result in a material point that is not in the flow volume if the part is not convex.
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
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Model Preparation Complete

Now we have completed the model preparation by creating caps and closing the gap between two objects and we should save our current setup.
T-junction-setup.msh.gz
Select File Write and save the mesh file
We shall now explore the different workflows that are available to get to a fully connected surface mesh for volume meshing
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Extracting the Flow volume

Problem Statement As a CFD user, I was given a set of CAD file(s) of an assembly consisting of solids and I am tasked with simulating the flow in the flow region loosely defined by these solids. Solution After preparing the geometry, I need to extract the Fluid volume. To achieve that I would have to:
-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
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Extracting the Flow Volume using Cut-Wrap

Read the mesh T-junction-setup.msh.gz Click on Wrap Select all the objects in the list Under Target select Fluid Surface Under Method select cut-wrap
Under New Object Name type extracted-fluid

Pull down the menu under Material Point and select the material point flow-volume
Click Wrap
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The wrapping process will take a few minutes, depending on the speed of your computer. Once complete, click on Manage and then select the object extracted-fluid Before you click Draw disable Draw Edge Zones from the Object Options in the main Fluent window to improve the clarity of the display
Now click Draw
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The extracted flow volume is displayed. Close examination of the mesh reveals however that it is not appropriate for volume meshing just yet and it needs to be improved.
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Click on Improve under Surface Mesh Select the extracted-fluid object from the Objects List Without changing anything else click Apply This process creates a Mesh object extracted-fluid-14:9
From the improve panel, select extracted-fluid-14:9 and click Draw
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Before Improve
After Improve
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We will now examine the quality of the wrapped mesh. Before we do that, we need to activate the appropriate face group that would allow us to select the appropriate zones for quality report. Click Groups as shown On the Face Groups list select the _mesh_group_extracted-fluid-14:9
Click Activate
Click Close
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Use the Menus and navigate to Display Plot Face Distribution
You see that only the Boundary zones in the group that we activated are listed.
Select them and click Plot
Good surface quality observed Save the mesh file as cut-wrapped.msh.gz
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Extracting the Flow Volume using Shrink-Wrap

We can now repeat some the steps to extract the Flow Volume using Shrink-Wrap. Not all of the steps will be explicitly mentioned as they are the same as with the Cut-Wrap Open the Object Manage panel. We will delete the newly created Cut-Wrap objects (not necessary but useful for clarity)
Select the two objects as shown

Click Include Faces and Edges to delete both the object definition and the entities it references
Click Delete
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Click on Wrap In the Wrap panel select inputs as shown.
Note that now we are selecting shrink-wrap under Method

Click Wrap
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The Shrink-Wrap operation will take a few minutes depending on the speed of your computer. Once done, Draw the object extracted-fluid
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Cut-Wrap Shrink-Wrap
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Click on Improve under Surface Mesh Select the extracted-fluid object from the Objects List Without changing anything else click Apply This process creates a Mesh object extracted-fluid-14:9
From the improve panel, select extracted-fluid-14:9 and click Draw
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Mesh after Improve
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Meshing for Conjugate Heat Transfer with a single solid material

Problem Statement As a CFD user, I was given a set of CAD file(s) of an assembly consisting of solids and I am tasked with simulating the flow in the flow region as well as the heat transfer into and from the solids. All solids are made of a single material and in order to simplify my model setup, they need to be a single zone. Solution
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
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Conjugate Heat Transfer with a single solid material

Read the mesh T-junction-setup.msh.gz Click on Objects and then Wrap
Select all the solid objects in the Objects list

For Target select Unified Solid Surface For Method select cut-wrap
Note: either cut-wrap or shrink-wrap can be used. We will use cut-wrap for the remainder of this workshop
Under New Object Name type single-solid Click Wrap
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Select the newly created Object single-solid and click Draw Use the clipping planes to cut the model with a yz plane You will see that there is no dividing wall between what used to be different solids before
Unified Solid
Multiple Solids
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Click on Sew under Surface Mesh In the Object list select the single-solid as well as the inlet, inlet2, outlet as shown Type sew-model under New Object Name Click Sew
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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.
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There are no dividing walls between the previous objects
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Use the Menus to navigate to Display, Plot, Face Distribution Select the _mesh_group_sew_model boundary zone group. All boundary zones associated with the sew model Click Plot
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The mesh quality is very good but it would be instructive to see how this could be improved Click on the Improve button Select the sew-model Specify 0.6 under Quality Limit Click Improve
The maximum skewness is now 0.6 down from 0.74
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To create the volume mesh click on Auto Mesh Select the sew-model under Object
Select the fluid-volume material point under Material Points

Make sure that the Keep Solid Cell Zones is checked
Click Mesh
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Use the Menus to navigate to Mesh Manage As you can see, there are two distinct Cell Zones created, the fluid-volume and single-solid
Save the mesh as single-solid.msh.gz
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Conjugate Heat Transfer with multiple solid materials

Problem Statement I am given a set of CAD files containing a assembly of different solid bodies, each made of a different material and I am tasked with simulating the flow in the flow volume defined by these materials and the conjugate heat transfer between the flow and these solid bodies Solution
To solve this problem we would need:

-Individually wrap these solid bodies -Sew the wrapped solid bodies with the caps -Create the volume mesh making sure that the mesh in the solids is kept
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Read the mesh T-junction-setup.msh.gz Use the Objects, Manage to draw the objects
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
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The wrapping process will take a few minutes depending on the speed of your computer
Once done a set of wrapped objects, prefixed with wrapSelect these objects and click Draw
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Observe that each object is separated from the others. This step would only have been 100% necessary if the objects themselves were nonconformal i.e. disconnected. In this case we could have just changed our conformal faceted geom objects directly into wrap type objects, avoid the wrap step and go straight to sew.
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Click on Sew under Surface Mesh Select all the wrap-* objects
Click Sew
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The process may take a few minutes depending on the speed of your computer
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
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Click on Improve Select the sew-object from the Objects list Set 0.6 for Quality Limit Click Improve
The maximum skewness is now 0.61
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Now we are ready to generate our volume mesh. We will grow prisms and a HexCore mesh
Click on Auto Mesh

Select sew-object under Object Select fluid-volume under Material Points Make sure the Keep Solid Zones is checked Under Boundary Layer Mesh click Set
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Under Prisms click on the Direction tab Select sew-object under the Object Name Click on Material Point and select fluid-volume under the Material Point list Click Orient
The four wetted wall Boundary Zones that face the part of the space defined by the Material Point are automatically extracted and selected. Face normals are autooriented. A new boundary zone group _prism_fluidvolume is created containing these zones for easy selection
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Click on the Growth Tab Select the inputs for Offset Method, Growth Method, First Height, Number of Layers and Rate as shown Note you can press <Enter> after populating the fields to update Total Height
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

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Make sure that the Prisms check box is checked Click Hexcore under Volume Fill Click Apply Save a copy of the surface mesh all set up and ready to volume mesh File Write Mesh CHT_mesh_setup.msh.gz Click Mesh The meshing process may take a few minutes depending on the speed of your computer Once done use the menu system to navigate to Display, Grid and go to the Cells tab. Click on the Bounds Tab Click on the Limit by X check box
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Go the the Cells tab Select in the list the different cells zones for solids and the fluid as well as the prism cells. Select All and Display
Note we always set bounds first before displaying cell zones to avoid displaying the full mesh
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Cleanup and Export to the Solver Mode

Before we transfer the mesh internally to Fluent, it is a good idea to clean up the mesh. You will notice by examining the contents of the Manage Objects panel that there are many different objects (including the original ones) as well as their associated Face and Edge Zones similar to what you see below. Save the mesh by going to File-Write as separate-solids.msh.gz
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Click on the Cleanup Button A pop-up window appears indicating what the cleanup process will do and asking permission to proceed Click Yes
The Manage Objects contains only our final mesh type object. Original geometry and wrapped objects are removed
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To transfer the mesh to the solver, click on the icon on the upper left corner of the Fluent window Switch to Solution Click Yes to the pop-up window
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Workshop 5: Basic Workflows

Introduction to ANSYS Fluent Meshing

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Starting Fluent in Meshing Mode

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Import the CAD Geometry

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Exact process depends on desired outcome

Surface Mesh Generation

Volume Mesh Generation

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There is no object representing the fluid volume

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Model Preparation-Gap Removal

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Model Preparation-Gap Removal

Click Yes to the pop-up window/question

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Model Preparation-Gap Removal

Model Preparation-Gap Removal

Before Gap Removal

After Gap Removal

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Model Preparation-Create Caps

Click on Caps under Create as shown

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Model Preparation-Create Caps

Zoom close into the area numbered 1 in the previous slide.

Model Preparation-Create Caps

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Generate Size Functions

Generate Size Functions

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Generate Size Functions

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Material Point Creation

Click on Create Material Point in the task page

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Material Point Creation

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Material Point Creation

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Material Point Creation-Alternate Approach

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Material Point Creation-Alternate Approach

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Model Preparation Complete