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18.

2 Release

Module 1: Introduction
Introduction to ANSYS Fluent Meshing

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Introduction to ANSYS Fluent Meshing

• Fluent Meshing overview and characteristics


− Characteristics and Terminology
− Boundary and Volume mesh generation/manipulation methods
− Flexibility
− What’s new in R18
• Summary

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Fluent Meshing Characteristics

• Embedded into the Fluent User


Interface
• Modern Interface, Model tree & Icons
• Read CAD and also surface mesh
complex multi-region assemblies
• Geared towards advanced users with a
lot of control
• Can handle billion cell + meshes
• Scriptable for batch execution

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Fluent Meshing Technology

• Historically Fluent Meshing (legacy TGrid) was a volume mesh filler with
surface mesh editing tools

Courtesy of Lola Cars

− Widely used in the aerospace and automotive markets,


o including F1 for many years
− Can create very high quality, large cell count, hybrid volume meshes

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Fluent Meshing Technology

• A class leading surface wrapping technology was developed

Courtesy of John Deere Courtesy of Materialise Courtesy of Lilleaker Consulting AS


and Inocean-Marotec AS

• Enlarges the scope of applications like : HVAC, Oil & Gas, Biomedical or
Underhood Thermal Management where :
− Starting point is faceted/STL geometry or CAD
− Geometry can be “dirty” with disconnected surfaces, overlapping geometry,
surface intersections, holes, etc.
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Boundary Mesh Tools Examples

Display cut-planes Preview min & max sizes and Display/fix highly skewed
local size fields faces/cells

Surface wrapping and Join/intersection and connection Full local control


remeshing
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Volume Mesh Generation Methods

Tetrahedral

Hexcore

CutCell

Thin Volume

Prisms

Poly

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Mesh Flexibility

• Connect separated surface meshes together to


make conformal then fill
• Connect external hexahedral meshes to triangular
surface meshes and fill shell volume
• Scriptable TUI with extensive wildcard support

• Sweep quad/tri surfaces into hex/prism volumes


• Remeshing tools to redistribute and improve
surface meshes
Remesh

• Import 3rd Party meshes and fix, improve quality,


remesh, or insert “post” prism layers
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Possible Workflows

SURFACE MESH VOLUME MESH

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Caveats

• Certain operations in Fluent Meshing cannot be undone

− Merge nodes globally


− Delete Face Zones
− Surface projection
− ...

We therefore advise saving meshes


incrementally as you work!

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What’s New in R18?

• User interface
− Cad Assembly module
− Octree based HexCore meshing
− More robust/Better quality Native poly

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Summary

• Fluent Meshing is a robust and powerful mesh generation software for


unstructured meshing
• Fluent Meshing contains several tools:
− To handle, repair and improve boundary meshes
− Surface Wrapping capabilities that can be used to generate CFD meshes on highly complex
and “dirty” geometry
− Class leading distributed parallel prism mesh generation capabilities allowing the capture of
boundary layers on complex geometry
− High quality tetrahedral and hexcore meshing algorithms
− Polyhedral mesh generation which creates low cell count meshes of high quality
− Scripted meshing for repeatability and capture of best practices
• Deep toolbox of flexible commands – a “transparent meshing toolbox”

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