Mesh Generation error in Ansys Fluent

- April 10, 2019 at 7:57 am
  
  Sohil1994
  Subscriber
  
  Hello,
  
  I am trying to mesh an assembly of a solar air heater (shown in the pics below). Just FYI, the heater is made up of a wooden box with a glass cover. Air flows through the convoluted pipe. I am trying to conduct the CFD simulation for the same.
  
  So far, I imported the geometry from Solidworks into Ansys and tried to apply the default mesh, but it is giving me the following error:
  
  " Patch-conforming tetrahedron mesh failed because of an edge intersection in the boundary mesh" (refer the last pic)
  
  Should I play with the mesh settings? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!
  
  Thanks in advance!
- April 11, 2019 at 6:44 am
  
  Keyur Kanade
  Ansys Employee
  
  open solidworks geometry in design modeler first.
  
  use sharetopology.
  
  check if geometry has any errors using tools - analysis tools - fault detection.
  
  if any errors then correct them and then go to meshing.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO4ZtwZdD2I
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZIX3CJkWBE