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Appendix 4 Additional Volume Meshing Features: Introduction To ANSYS Icem CFD

The document discusses additional volume meshing features in ANSYS ICEM CFD release 16.0, including tetra octree global options, edge criterion, a tetra octree workflow recommendation, and details on compute mesh, densities, and handling complicated density shapes.

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Appendix 4 Additional Volume Meshing Features: Introduction To ANSYS Icem CFD

The document discusses additional volume meshing features in ANSYS ICEM CFD release 16.0, including tetra octree global options, edge criterion, a tetra octree workflow recommendation, and details on compute mesh, densities, and handling complicated density shapes.

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Appendix 4

Additional Volume Meshing Features


16.0 Release

Introduction to ANSYS
ICEM CFD
© 2015 ANSYS, Inc. September 2, 2015 1 Release 16.0
Tetra Octree – Global Options
• Global Mesh Setup > Volume Meshing parameters
– Run as batch process
• Runs as a separate process (tetra.exe). GUI will stay interactive.
– Fast Transition
• Allows for a slightly faster transition in element size from finer
to coarser
• Reduced element count
– Edge Criterion
• Split elements at a factor greater than set value to better
capture geometry
– Define Thin cuts
• Tool for resolving thin gaps, sharp angles
• User selects pairs of opposing parts
• Resolves elements jumping from one side to another
– Smooth
• Automatically smoothes after grid generation process
– Coarsen
– Fix Non-manifold
• Automatically tries to fix elements that jump from surface to
another surface
– For a more detailed description go to Help > Help Topics > Help
Manual > Mesh > Global Mesh Setup > Volume Meshing Parameters
> Tetra/Mixed > Robust (Octree)
© 2015 ANSYS, Inc. September 2, 2015 2 Release 16.0
Edge Criterion
• Edge criterion
– For tetra octree only
– A number 0 – 1
– 0.2 (the default) means if more than 20% of an edge crosses a
surface or curve, then split the edge
– Has an effect similar to globally applying a thin cut
– Smaller numbers will cause more splitting. The closest node will
be projected to the surface, modeling smaller features
– Use prudently. Too small a number can result in random clusters
of refined mesh

> 0.2
Split edge
and project
new node
to surface
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Tetra Octree Workflow Recommendation
1. Check geometry accuracy and integrity
– Visually scan surfaces to see if curvature is too choppy or if gaps are large
– Can use build diagnostic topology with no “filtering” to indicate gaps and holes by the
yellow curves
• Must use a reasonable tolerance, indicating a maximum allowable gap
– Large gaps also show after running tetra if leakage is reported
2. Move surfaces into intended part names
– Possibly move curves and points later, but surfaces are most important
3. Obtain necessary curves and points
– Needed for nodes to align at hard corners
– Build topology with “filtering” feature angle (30 - 45) or extract curves from surfaces
and points from curves, then delete excess
– Scan model and delete curves/points at more gradual angles where surfaces meet
4. Create material point(s)
– Defines volumes to keep mesh (all regions initially meshed)
– Material point must be INSIDE volume, not on surfaces
– ORFN point is a reserved name which instructs to cut away that region

© 2015 ANSYS, Inc. September 2, 2015 4 Release 16.0


Tetra Octree Workflow Recommendation
5. Set mesh sizes
‒ Globally first
• Maximum size
• Curvature/proximity refinement
‒ Locally
• Part mesh setup spreadsheet
• Surface mesh setup
• Curve Mesh setup
• Densities
6. Compute mesh
7. Smooth
‒ Approximately 0.2 minimum quality for tetra
8. Check errors and possible problems
‒ See ICEM CFD help for descriptions of each check
‒ Also discussed in Mesh Preparation presentation
‒ Edit mesh directly to fix problems or change a mesh size and remesh

© 2015 ANSYS, Inc. September 2, 2015 5 Release 16.0


Compute Mesh – Delaunay, Adv. Front, TGrid
• Run Options:
– Similar options as octree except cannot mesh to partial
geometry and partial mesh (option: Use existing mesh parts)
– Create Prism Layers available for both
– Hexa-Core not available for Advancing Front
– Volume Part Name
• For newly created tetras
• Can choose Inherited to use material points
– Input
• All Geometry
– Will run shell mesh first with no user input/editing
– Using parameters from Model/Part/Surface/Curve Mesh Setup
– Review Shell Meshing chapter
– If doubtful as to shell mesh quality, run Shell Mesh first, then
use Existing Mesh Input method
• Existing Mesh
– Most common method. Surfaces already meshed
• Part by Part
– Meshes each part separately. Nodes are not connected
• From File
– Saves memory. Surface mesh does not need to be loaded
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Densities with No Volume
• Must use width parameter Line
– Width is the number of tetra layers away from the density
density which will keep the same size as the density
mesh size until allowed to grow
– Width displays for point and line densities but not plane
densities
– Only tetra octree respects width control Point
density

Plane
density

© 2015 ANSYS, Inc. September 2, 2015 7 Release 16.0


Complicated Density Shapes
Convex curve
• You can select any number of points to model
curvature better but only convex shapes are
handled

Concave curve
• Need to create multiple densities to model concave shapes without excess
elements generated

4 densities
2 densities

© 2015 ANSYS, Inc. September 2, 2015 8 Release 16.0

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