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Mesh-Intro 17.0 WS1.1 CFD ANSYS WB Meshing Basics

The document discusses generating a mesh in ANSYS Meshing, including creating named selections, using inflation, checking mesh quality, and saving the project. Procedures covered include setting defaults, adding named selections to define boundaries, using inflation layers to refine the mesh near walls, using section planes to view the mesh interior, and checking mesh quality statistics.

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Mesh-Intro 17.0 WS1.1 CFD ANSYS WB Meshing Basics

The document discusses generating a mesh in ANSYS Meshing, including creating named selections, using inflation, checking mesh quality, and saving the project. Procedures covered include setting defaults, adding named selections to define boundaries, using inflation layers to refine the mesh near walls, using section planes to view the mesh interior, and checking mesh quality statistics.

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17.

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Workshop 1.1 CFD: ANSYS Meshing Basics


Introduction to ANSYS Meshing

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Introduction

Background
• This workshop assumes little or no prior
experience of ANSYS Meshing. Basic
workflow will be demonstrated

Objectives
• Generating a mesh
• Creating Named Selections
• Using Inflation
• Checking mesh quality
• Saving the project

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Project Startup (1)

Create the Project

• Drag and drop a Mesh component


system into the Project Schematic
• Right click on the Geometry cell (A2) and
select Import Geometry  Browse
• Locate the file “pipe-tee.stp” in the
Meshing Workshops Input Files folder
(Module 01) and select it. The geometry
cell will show a check mark indicating it
is up to date

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Project Startup (2)

Start Meshing
• On the Mesh cell right click and select Edit
– Note: Double clicking on the Mesh cell can also startup Meshing
• ANSYS Meshing will start up and load the geometry

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Units

Set Units
• It’s good practice to first check and, if required, set the units.
• From the main menu select Units and, if it is not already set, specify
Metric (m...).

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Defaults

Set Defaults
• We’ll first demonstrate how a
basic mesh can quickly be
generated with the minimum of
input.
• Click Mesh in the Outline
• This will display the Details of
“Mesh” panel which contains
Global Mesh Control settings.

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Mesh Settings

Set Defaults
• In the Details of Mesh panel expand Defaults
and click in the box to the right of Physics
Preference to activate the drop down box
– Select CFD
– Set the Solver Preference to Fluent
• Under Sizing set the following.
– Use Advanced Size Function: On: Curvature
– Relevance Center: Coarse
• Click the “Update” button located in the
toolbar

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View the Mesh

Mesh
• Check that the generated mesh matches
that shown
– This is a fully automatic tetrahedron mesh
– Appropriate sizing and parameters have been set
and calculated based upon the selected physics
preference and geometry characteristics

• The next step is to specify which geometric


entities will form boundaries for use in the
solver by creating Named Selections

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Named Selections (1)

Add Named Selections


• From the top toolbar select the Face
Selection Filter

• Select the face as shown by left clicking over


it (will turn green)
• With the face selected, right click and select
Create Named Selection from the Context
Menu that appears

• The Named Selection Dialog Box will appear

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Named Selections (2)

Add Named Selections (Continued)


• In the Named Selections Dialog Box enter the
name “inlet-z” as shown
• Click OK
• The Named Selection you have just created will
be listed under the Named Selections object in
the Outline

• Selecting it will highlight the corresponding faces

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Named Selections (3)

Add Named Selections (Continued)


outlet
• Use exactly the same procedure to create
two more Named Selections “inlet-y” &
“outlet”

inlet - z

inlet - y
• These Named Selections will be used to
define boundary conditions in the fluid
solver
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Review

• The mesh we have just generated may be suitable for a simple


laminar flow calculation
• There are many ways in which a mesh can be generated to
accommodate for the requirements of specific applications
• More complex analyses, for example CFD solutions containing
turbulent flow, have additional requirements
• We’ll now look at an example

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Inflation
Mesh with Inflation Layers
• The fluid simulation will concern a wall bounded
turbulent flow. To adequately resolve flow gradients
near the wall we need smaller mesh cells near the wall
• An efficient way to achieve this is by ‘inflating’ the wall
surface mesh to produce layers of thin prismatic cells
called Inflation Layers
• In the Outline, click mesh to display the Details of Mesh
panel
• Expand the Inflation Section and set Use Automatic
Inflation to Program Controlled
– Click Update
• The mesh will be regenerated with the new settings

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Inflated Mesh
Review the Inflated Mesh
• The program controlled inflation has
automatically excluded the Named Selection
faces creating layers on the unnamed wall faces

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Section Planes (1)
View Mesh Interior
• To inspect the interior of a mesh Section
planes are used
• Click the +Z axis to orientate the view as
shown
• Click the New Section Plane button in
the Section Planes panel (lower left)

• If the panel is not visible activate it by


selecting View  Windows  Section
Planes from the main menu bar

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Section Planes (2)
Click

View Mesh Interior (Continued) Drag


• Create the Section Plane by clicking and dragging
Release
a vertical line down through the geometry as
shown
– It’s not necessary to drag the line all the way through the
geometry – just far enough to establish a vertical line
then release

• Click the blue iso ball to snap to the isometric


view

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Section Planes (3)

• Click on “Edit Section Plane” button,


then click anywhere in the graphics
window and drag to slide the
Section through the mesh
• Release to set the new position

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Section Planes (4)

• Click either side of Section Plane tool


to toggle the culling
• One done with setting section plane,
click again on “Edit Section Plane”
button to de-activate it

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Section Planes (5)

• Display whole elements using the


button in the Section Plane Panel

• Deactivate the Section Plane by


unchecking the box “Slice Plane 1” in
the Section Plane Panel

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Mesh Statistics

Check Quality
• Before using a mesh in any solver it is
important to check the mesh quality
• Quality is defined through various metrics
which measure the degree to which each mesh
cell varies from an ideal shape
• In the Details of Mesh panel expand Statistics.
Click in the box to the right of Mesh Metric and
select Orthogonal Quality
• The minimum value for Orthogonal Quality is
important and should not fall below 0.05. The
minimum for this mesh is acceptable

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Save the Project

This completes the workshop


• From the main menu select File  Close Meshing
– Workbench will save any application data
• From the Workbench Project Page use the file menu and save the project
as “AMWS1.1_cfd.wbpj” to your working folder

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