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[Jthibault]

I want advice as to the best approach for defining the mesh for this model.

I am attempting to model an assembly of magnetic components moving linearly through a pipe which has an inner surface defect. For simplicity I am using symmetry to simulate 1/4 of the model and chose to have the pipe be the moving object as it is simpler geometrically.

Is it generally better to run a static maxwell solver and then import the adaptively refined mesh or to strictly define mesh operations for all components?

Additionally, I wanted to clarify regarding the need for "mesh control" objects in Ansys for transitioning from finer mesh to coarse mesh. If I define a region of interest to have say 1mm element size limit and do not care about the adjacent area is it necessary to break down the regions adjacent to it and gradually decrease the maximum element size? This has been a requirement for other software.

[HDLI]

I do not suggest to make the linking for importing mesh, because of translation motion. The adaptive meshing of magnetostatics solver is just good for one position during the motion.
We could compare some results before and after refining mesh in transient solver. Decrease element size, until we get same results. Thanks.
HDLI