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[tinucci]

So I have a mesh of a radial fan I have generated with Fluent Meshing (Normal Meshing module isn't able to generate an appropriate mesh) which consists of two volumes: a fixed one and a rotating one.

The problem is that when setting up the case and making the rotating mesh rotate, it works for a couple of iterations and after that it gives a negative volume error message. I have even tried the simplest case of a rotating sphere alone, following the same workflow and the problem is the same.

The radial speed is and needs to be 105 rad/s and I can't make it slower, and the timestep is aproximately 1e-4 s. The mesh is sufficiently fine with about 15M cells. And I am sure the parameters when setting up the mesh motion are fine.

The only thing I can think of is the need of Fluent Meshing to treat the interface as a shared face, which the normal Meshing module doesn't require, and thus not showing then the Mesh Interfaces option on the Fluent Solver.

Any help is appreciated, I am lost on how to solve this.

[Keyur Kanade]

Fluent Meshing will give you conformal mesh.
If you are using sliding mesh do following.
Read mesh in Fluent. Suppose it has 2 cell zones A & B.
Delete B. Save A.cas
Read again original file.
Delete A.
Append A.cas
Save as new.cas
This will give you non conformal mesh between A & B.
Regards Keyur
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