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Fluent not converged and hexdominant mesh method create pyramid elements.

    • Akın Denizman
      Subscriber

      Hi,

      I have a fluid domain, and I want to see pressure loss in this domain. I did like 30 different fluid domain analysis that looked like this, and mostly I get this "x% pyramid elements are created" warning. My meshed body's inside looks like this. Sometimes my analysis was converged and sometimes not. I guess this pyramid elements create a problem for me, because when I solve this warning with different methods, my analysis were converged. To solve that problem I try ;

      • Combining Hex-dominant mesh method and multizone mesh method (mesh free type was selected as hex mesh)
      • Using Virtual Topolgy to reduce number of faces in model
      • I try to split my part into different bodies to reduce pyramid mesh elements. Then I assign contacts or share topology.
      • I use fluent meshing and increase quality of meshes, but neither it worked or converged one time.
      • I use different mesh methods but none of them works.

      I used those methods and try to solve convergence problems, but in the model below those methods don't work. So can some one explain how can use hexdominant mesh method better and solve that pyramid mesh problems?

       

       

       

    • Keyur Kanade
      Ansys Employee

      Please do not use hex dominant method for Fluent solver. Please use tetrahedron method and then proceed. 

      Please go through help manual for more details 

      Please check following videos

      Ansys Meshing Sizing:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4q6q8nKF3U

      Ansys Meshing: Decomposition for hex meshing:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P19GOTQWmc0

      Ansys Meshing: Meshing Methods:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEOC8rDnnRo

      Ansys Meshing: Inflation:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrEHXizrhC0

       

      Regards,

      Keyur

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      • Akın Denizman
        Subscriber

        Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for your answer, but when I use any mesh methods instead of hexdominant mesh in CFD analysis, the analysis does not converge. I tried this on more than one model, but I was able to achieve convergence by using hexdominant mesh in all models with long and abundant turns. Likewise, while the system that created with the hexdominant mesh with pyramid elements converges, the same system with higher quality mesh with fluent mesh does not converge. 

        Do you have any idea what is the reason or solution for this problem?

    • Keyur Kanade
      Ansys Employee

      It is difficult to tell without checking all solver settings. Please open a new post under fluids and somebody with relavent solver experience can comment. But for CFD please do not use hexdominant. 

      Regards,

      Keyur

      How to access Ansys Online Help Document

      Guidelines on the Student Community

      Fluids Engineering Courses | Ansys Innovation Courses

       

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