Tetrahedral Mesh With Inflation For A Tee Mixer

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Tetrahedral Mesh with Inflation for a Tee Mixer
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April 28, 2009 Inventory #002645
Tetrahedral Mesh with Inflation
Goals
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This workshop demonstrates the creation of a mesh for the fluid portion of a mixing tee using the patch conforming tetrahedral mesher with an inflation layer to resolve the wall boundary layer. This workshop also demonstrates how to export a mesh database for future analysis in case this mesh is to be used later to set up a CFD simulation.
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Importing Geometry
1. Start Workbench and select the Import option in the menu bar and change the filter to Geometry File. 2. Specify the mixer-tee.agdb file from the Tutorials folder and note that an entry appears in the Project Schematic with a green check mark. 3. Expand the Component Systems entry at the left and drag Meshing onto the DM instance in the project schematic. Note the linkage that appears.
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Supressing Solid Parts and Setting the Method

4. Double click the Mesh entry in System B on the Project Schematic to open up ANSYS Meshing. 5. Note that there are 5 parts and 5 solid bodies. The four Solid entries comprise the solid portion of the mixing tee while the body named Fluid is the fluid region 6. Since we will focus first on the fluid region, right-click and suppress the four solid bodies under geometry in the Outline 7. Right-click on Mesh and select Insert Method. Select the fluid body and set the Method to Tetrahedrons and the Algorithm to Patch Conforming
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Physics Preference
8. Set the Physics Preference to CFD and the Solver Preference to Fluent 9. Expand the Sizing entry and set the Max Face Size to 0.015 [m] and the Max Tet Size to 0.03 [m]. 10. Expand the Inflation entry and set Use Automatic Tet Inflation to None. This means that you will need to define inflation layers manually
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Previewing the Surface Mesh
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11. Right click on Mesh and select Preview Surface Mesh. The mesh resolution of the surfaces appears to be reasonable
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Inflating the Method

12. Right click on the Patch Conforming Method and choose Inflate this Method 13. Pick the five side surfaces of the model as shown below and set the Inflation Option to First Layer Thickness and enter a value of 0.001 m. Set the Maximum Layers to 5.
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Generating the Inflated Mesh

14. Right click on the mesh and choose Generate Mesh to create the inflated volume mesh.
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Skewness Mesh Metric
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15. Expand the Statistics Entry and set the Mesh Metrics Option to Skewness. The maximum value of 0.896 is suitable for the Fluent Solver
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Unsuppressing the Solids

16. Select the four solid parts under geometry in the project outline and right-click to unsuppress them. You might want to mesh the solids for a conjugate heat transfer calculation in either CFX or FLUENT or perhaps for a one-way FSI calculation.
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Mesh Method for the Solid Parts
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17. Insert a Patch Conforming Tetrahedral Method and assign it to the four solid parts
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Body Sizing for the Solid Parts

18. Right-click on Mesh in the Outline and insert a Sizing. Select the 4 solid bodies in the Model View (set the selection filter to bodies if needed) and apply the selection to the geometry. Enter a sizing of 0.04 [m].
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Combined Mesh for Fluid and Solid Parts

19. Regenerate the mesh. Note the new mesh count and quality metric
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Named Selections for CFD

20. Now let us see how to export a mesh database for future analysis in case this mesh is to be used later to set up a CFD simulation. Since the solid bodies are not needed for this, suppress the four solid bodies again. 21. To help prepare the mesh for CFD, you will create named selections for the 3 end faces. To create a named selection, set the selection filter to Faces, pick a face in the Model View, right-click and choose Create Named Selection. Do this for the low-y face in the model using inlet-y as the Name for the Selection.
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Preparing the Mesh for CFD

22. Repeat this for the high-Z face (inlet-z) and the high-Y face (outlet)
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Exporting the Mesh File

22. While still in ANSYS Meshing, click on File/Export and save the file as a meshdat file. Choose your desired location to save. 23. Save the Project and exit Workbench.
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Workshop 5.

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April 28, 2009 Inventory #002645