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Mapped Face Meshing and Edge Sizings for a Swept Mesh for a Thin Annulus

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Goals
This workshop will illustrate the use and effect of a Mapped Face Meshing control for a Swept Mesh to enforce a radial number of divisions across the width of a thin annulus An Edge Sizing is also set for edges on the Source and Target faces to help generate a high quality mesh

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Specifying Geometry
1. Copy the elbow.agdb file from the files folder to your working directory 2. Start Workbench and double-click the Mesh entry in the Component Systems panel on the left 3. Right-click on Geometry in the Mesh entry in the Project Schematic and select Import Geometry/Browse 4. Browse to the elbow.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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Insert Sweep Mesh

7. *Close the Meshing Options Panel at the right without setting anything. 8. Right-click on Mesh and insert a Method. Select the body and set the method to Sweep. 9. Set the Src/Trg selection to Manual Source and select the face shown as the Source. *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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Initial Mesh
10. In the Mesh settings, set the Physics to CFD and the Solver Preference to Fluent. Expand the Sizing and Statistics entries 11. Set the Mesh Metric to Skewness and generate the mesh 12. Note that there is only one element across most of the annular thickness and the skewness is relatively high
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Mapped Face Meshing

13. Since the source face has an inner and outer loop, adding a mapped Face Meshing will allow you to specify the radial number of divisions 14. Right-click on Mesh and insert a Mapped Face Meshing. Pick the source face for the sweep and set the Radial Number of Divisions to 3.

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Effect of Mapped Face Meshing

15. Generate the mesh. Note that there are now 3 elements across the thickness of the annulus but there is some twist to the mesh as it sweeps from the source to the target. The skewness is also still rather high for such a simple geometry. 16. Right click on Mesh and Insert a Sizing. You will define a consistent edge sizing for the 4 edges on the source and target faces to help improve the quality
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Edge Sizing
17. Pick the four edges which bound the source and target faces and apply the election to the Geometry entry box 18. Set the Type to Number of Divisions and set the number to 20. The Model Display should update to reflect the settings

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Final Mesh

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17. Regenerate the mesh. Note the improvement in the mesh quality metrics.

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