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[kevin.kiprop]

I am doing meshing on a stope geometry,and need to mesh my geometry in a manner that i have a projectile path which the paste follows from the slurry inlet to the stope base As seen from the attached geometry model,please help me solve this problem so i do not have to use the sphere of influence over a large radius and reduce my computationaa resources(The mark points to what I would like the meshing path be like)

[NickFL]

I see several solutions. 1) In your CAD you could subdivde out the region where you expect the fluid to go and then just mesh this body with a higher mesh density. 2) You mentioned you do not want to have a sphere with a large body of influence, but why could you not have multiple spheres along the path where you expect the fluid to go, each with a smaller diameter. 3) If you use Fluent Meshing you could use a Body of Influence of an arbitary shape. 4) Most advanced and resource intensive would be to have an adapative mesh that remeshes itself based upon some gradients you set up. Still I would use one of the above techniques as a starting point before moving on to something like this.

[kevin.kiprop]

I appreciate this feedback, will you expound a bit more on the arbitrary body of influence?Do I do this in geometry part(spaceclaim/designmodeler) and how can I achieve the several sphere of influence layers Thanks

[NickFL]

Check: https://ansys13.ansys.com/KnowledgeArticles/Phase-2B/2048503/2048503.pdf

Edited for link working as a link