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[sugarl14]

Hi,

I am modeling a wave energy converter with some pretty tight curves and so I have a few elements whose skewness is 0.94 and orthogonal quality is 0.055. However, my average skewness is 0.20 and my average orthogonal quality is 0.79, which I think is pretty good.

Whenever I run dynamic mesh, my simulation fails either because skewness exceed 0.95 or orthogonal quality goes below 0.05.

Is there a way I can refine just the elements that have high skewness or low orthogonal quality? Or do I have to refine the entire rigid body? I'm using proximity and curvature to ty to capture the sharp radii of the rigid body, but there's still a few stubborn elements:

[Karthik Remella]

Hello You can perhaps modify the geometry to avoid these skewed elements in the first place. I'm assuming that there is sharp corner or edge which is causing these skewed elements.
Try to see if you can workaround this by creating a small surface instead of a single edge. Let us know if this helps.
Karthik

[sugarl14]

I will try this and let you know if it works! Thank you very much, Karthik

[Karthik Remella]

You're welcome!