Mesh Cell Reduction

- April 17, 2019 at 3:01 pm
  
  cnokeke
  Subscriber
  
  Hello
  
  So I am trying to carry out a CFD analysis at a pipe elbow using fluent. I am done with the meshing however when I tried to move the meshed geometry over to Fluent I couldn't because my cells were maxed out. I am trying to figure out how I can limit my cells to 512,000.
  
  Thank you
- April 17, 2019 at 4:46 pm
  
  Karthik Remella
  Administrator
  
  Hello,
  
  You could try to use local refinements such as body / face sizing and body of influence (rather than global controls) to refine your mesh locally. In addition to this, you could try to decompose your geometry and make sure your have a structured mesh. This will greatly reduce the number of cells. Here are some videos in this playlist which might be of some help to you.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0lZXwHtV6OlbZcma3GztaXO5svGskqIy
  
  Thank you.
  
  Best,
  
  Karthik
- April 17, 2019 at 5:46 pm
  
  cnokeke
  Subscriber
  
  So this is my first time using ansys for a class project so i'm not sure where to find all this . Is this what you are referring to by face sizing?