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Pipe Tee Mesh

ANSYS Meshing Application Introduction

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Goals
This workshop will illustrate the use of the Automatic Meshing Method for a single body part The transfer of the mesh to FLUENT and CFX is also demonstrated

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Specifying Geometry
1. Copy the pt.agdb file from the tutorial files folder to your working directory 2. Start Workbench and double-click the Mesh entry in the Component Systems panel in the Toolbox 3. Right-click on Geometry in the Mesh entry in the Project Schematic and select Import Geometry/Browse 4. Browse to the pt.agdb file you copied and click Open 5. Note that the Geometry entry in the Project Schematic now has a green check mark indicating that geometry has been specified
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Initial Mesh
6. Double-click the Mesh entry in the schematic or right-click and select Edit. This will open the Meshing Application 7. *In the Meshing Options panel set the Physics Preference to CFD, the Mesh Method to Automatic and press OK 8. Right click on Mesh and select Generate Mesh 9. Use the view manipulation tools and the axis triad to inspect the mesh *Note: If you are using ANSYS V14.0 or more recent versions of ANSYS then you will not see the Meshing Options panel at the start of ANSYS Meshing. You will still be able to set the Physics Preference and insert any Mesh Methods manually.

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Based upon choice of physics (CFD), the Meshing Application has produced a mesh accommodating curvature, a reasonable sizing strategy and automatic selection of optimal mesh methods with minimal user input. There are many ways in which the Meshing Application can control and improve the mesh. Some further mesh controls will now be demonstrated.

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Named Selections
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10. Set the Selection Filter to Faces and select one of the pipe end faces as shown. Right-click in the Model View and choose Create Named Selection. Enter velocityinlet-1 for the Selection Name 11. Repeat for the other two pipe end faces using the naming as shown 12. The Named Selections just created are listed in the Outline by expanding Named Selections. The names assigned here will be transferred to the CFD solver so the appropriate flow conditions can be applied on these surfaces.
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Inflation
13. Select Mesh in the Outline and expand Inflation in Details 14. Set Use Automatic Tet Inflation to Program Controlled, leave other settings 15. Right click on Mesh and select Generate Mesh. Note the inflation layers are grown from all boundaries not assigned a Named Selection. The thickness of the inflation layers is calculated as a function of the surface mesh and applied fully automatically.

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Section Planes
16. Orient the model by clicking on the axis triad (+X Direction) 17. Click on the New Section Plane icon in the menu bar. Left click, hold and drag the cursor in the direction of the arrow as illustrated to create the Section Plane 18. Created Section Planes are listed (bottom left). Planes can be individually activated using the checkbox, deleted and toggled between 3D element view and 2D slice view. Try this now (you will need to rotate the model to see the cross-section)
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After the Section Plane has been created the Section Plane cursor tool will still be active. Left clicking in the viewport and dragging will slide the Section Plane along its axis. Clicking on either side of the Plane tool will cut the mesh on each side respectively. Clicking twice on one side will change the view to a planar slice. When the position is finalized, select a view manipulation tool

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Mesh Statistics
19. If you expand the Statistics entry under Mesh, it will summarize the number of nodes and elements in the mesh 20. Under Mesh Metric select Skewness. Note the reported mesh quality

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Transferring Mesh to CFD

21. After the mesh has been generated, you can transfer it to a new CFD simulation 22. In the main Workbench Window, right click on the Mesh entry in the Meshing instance you created on the Project Schematic and observe that you can transfer the mesh to a new FLUENT or CFX simulation (Transfer Data To New >). Select either FLUENT or CFX 23. Note that the Mesh entry now has an Update symbol, right click the Mesh entry and select Update. This will pass data to the new FLUENT/CFX instance.

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Fluent with Workbench Mesh

24. If FLUENT was selected - Double click the Setup entry and accept the default options in the FLUENT Launcher 25. FLUENT will start with the mesh loaded 26. Save the project from the Workbench File Menu

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CFX with Workbench Mesh

27. If CFX was selected - Double click the Setup entry, CFX Pre will launch with the mesh loaded 28. Save the project from the Workbench File Menu

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