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    Mesh-Intro 19R2 WS5.4 CFD Workshop Instructions Manifold

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    This document provides instructions for meshing a fluid domain model for CFD analysis using ANSYS Meshing. It describes how to define virtual entities to aid meshing, set global and local element sizing controls, enable automatic inflation, and check mesh quality. The workflow involves importing a geometry, splitting faces with virtual topology, applying MultiZone and advancing front meshing methods, defining local sizings on surfaces of interest, and ensuring good orthogonal quality in the final mesh.

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    This document provides instructions for meshing a fluid domain model for CFD analysis using ANSYS Meshing. It describes how to define virtual entities to aid meshing, set global and local element sizing controls, enable automatic inflation, and check mesh quality. The workflow involves importing a geometry, splitting faces with virtual topology, applying MultiZone and advancing front meshing methods, defining local sizings on surfaces of interest, and ensuring good orthogonal quality in the final mesh.

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    Workshop 5.

    4 CFD: Meshing
    of Manifold Model
    Introduction to ANSYS Meshing

    Release 2019 R2

    1 © 2019 ANSYS, Inc.


    Introduction

    Background
    • This workshop illustrates how to mesh a fluid domain with acceptable
    quality using defeaturing tools
    Inlets
    Objectives
    • Creating virtual entities
    Porous
    • Setting local refinements on surfaces media
    of interest
    • Defining program-controlled inflation
    • Checking mesh quality / influence of
    defeaturing / pinch settings
    Outlet

    2 © 2019 ANSYS, Inc.


    Project Startup
    Create the Project
    • Start Workbench
    • 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 “exhaust.scdoc” in the
    Meshing workshop input files (Module05)
    folder and select it. The geometry cell will
    show a check mark indicating it is up to
    date

    • Double click the mesh cell (A3) to start


    Meshing

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    Unit

    Set Units
    • From the main menu select Units and, if it is not already set, specify
    Metric (mm...)

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    Preparation
    • We are now going to split virtual entities by splitting a cylindrical face to help the
    automatic block decomposition used by the MultiZone method

    • For displaying vertices turn ON “Show Vertices” option in the Display tab

    • Select all the bodies in the geometry and change the transparency to 0.5

    5 © 2019 ANSYS, Inc.


    Defining Virtual Entities (1)

    • Change the Edge Coloring to ‘By connectivity’

    • Right Click on Model in the Project Tree and insert ‘Virtual Topology’

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    Defining Virtual Entities (2)
    • With ‘Virtual Topology’ selected in the Outline, choose the vertex selection filter and
    select the two points next to the cylindrical porous body (press Ctrl for multiple
    selection). Select ‘Split Face at Vertices’ in the toolbar

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    Defining Virtual Entities (3)

    • Repeat the operation for the two corresponding points on the other side : two
    virtual faces will be created on the initial lateral face, providing two edges to base
    the mesh creation on

    8 © 2019 ANSYS, Inc.


    MultiZone Method

    • The first step is to define a MultiZone method for the two cylindrical bodies. Turn
    off Show Vertices. With ‘Mesh’ selected in the Outline, select both of them, right
    click, Insert → Method and choose MultiZone
    – Set Surface Mesh Method to ‘Uniform’
    – Keep Source/Target selection to ‘Automatic’

    9 © 2019 ANSYS, Inc.


    Global Sizing Controls (1)

    • The two other bodies will be meshed using the default Patch Conforming
    Tetrahedron algorithm. Therefore no further method definition is needed here
    – However, in the ‘Mesh’ details view, switch the ‘Triangle Surface Mesher’ option to ‘Advancing
    Front’. This algorithm generally provides a smoother surface mesh

    10 © 2019 ANSYS, Inc.


    Global Sizing Controls (2)
    • In the details view of ‘Mesh’ in the Outline : make sure that
    ‘CFD’ and ‘Fluent’ are selected for the Physics and Solver
    Preferences respectively

    • Expand the Sizing box. Make sure ‘Capture Curvature’is set on


    Yes and set the following global sizing values :
    - Curvature Normal Angle : 12°
    - Defeature Size : 0.5 mm
    - Curvature Min Size : 2 mm
    - Element Size : 8 mm
    - Max Size : 16 mm
    - Growth Rate : 1.2

    • Make sure the values of Defeaturing and Pinch Tolerances are


    set as shown (right). Activation of automatic defeaturing
    enables the Meshing application to automatically defeature
    small features and dirty geometry according to the Defeaturing
    Tolerance specified here

    11 © 2019 ANSYS, Inc.


    Local Sizing Controls (1)

    • To properly refine the zones of interest, we need to define local sizing on them. These
    will locally over-rule global sizing values

    • With ‘Mesh’ selected in the Outline, select the cross face as shown highlighted (you
    may need to hide some faces before). Right click, Insert → Sizing. Define a 1 mm
    sizing on this face, selecting ‘Hard’ as behaviour since this size is smaller than the
    global min size and will be ignored if otherwise

    12 © 2019 ANSYS, Inc.


    Local Sizing Controls (2)

    • Select the two edges created with


    the virtual face split. Define a 6
    mm sizing on them, with a
    symmetric bias (refined close to
    the cylinder ends) and a bias factor
    of 2

    • Select the second cylindrical body


    near the outlet, and define a 4 mm
    body sizing on it

    13 © 2019 ANSYS, Inc.


    Inflation Controls
    • For this workshop, we will activate automatic program-
    controlled inflation. This will inflate the mesh on every
    surface, except those linked to extra properties (Named
    Selections, Mechanical load, ...)

    • In the ‘Mesh’ detail view, expand the Inflation box and set
    the ‘Use Automatic Inflation’ option to ‘Program
    Controlled’. Set Maximum Layers to 3 leaving other
    parameters to default values

    • Select the four inlet surfaces,


    RMB → Create Named Selection inlets
    and name it: “inlets”. Repeat the
    operation by naming the outlet
    surface “outlet” outlet

    • Generate the mesh

    14 © 2019 ANSYS, Inc.


    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 Quality.
    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 approximately 0.20
    which is good. (Quality in your case may vary
    slightly)

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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 “AMWS5.5_cfd.wbpj” to your working
    folder

    16 © 2019 ANSYS, Inc.

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