Generate mesh for shell side body of helix tubes with short pitch

- May 4, 2020 at 10:03 pm
  
  ywang2524
  Subscriber
  
  Hi,
  
  The body is not sweepable since the pitch is too short comparing to the coil diameter. I have also tried patch conforming, match control, automatic method. None of them worked, which method and settings should I use to generate mesh?
  
  Thanks!
- May 4, 2020 at 11:24 pm
  
  ywang2524
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- May 5, 2020 at 11:07 am
  
  Rob
  Forum Moderator
  
  Tube side will sweep. Shell side will need to be tet mesh.
- May 6, 2020 at 2:55 am
  
  Keyur Kanade
  Ansys Employee
  
  tube can have hex.
  
  outside of tube would be tet.
  
  please make sure that you split this geometry further to have more no. of faces.
  
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  Keyur
  
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- May 16, 2020 at 9:14 pm
  
  ywang2524
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  Thanks for the reply!
  
  Am I supposed to split the body in DesignModeler? I was trying to use face split but it did not work. Thanks!