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[ft19]

hello everyone,

I'm trying to shrink this 3D cylinder in fluent:

I would like a complete closure of the cylinder maintaining the same thickness. Do you have some suggestion for the dynamic mesh?

 

 

[mli]

Please provide more details of your questions. 

[ft19]

I want to simulate this along all the shape of the tube:

i would like to pass from the design 1 to the design 2 and then again to design 1

[Rob]

Yes, that's possible. Have a read through of the Moving Mesh section of the Fluent manual, I think you're looking at rigid body motion and remeshing. Note, the inner diameter cannot become zero as you must maintain the same topology. 

You will probably need a full tet mesh, and I'd suggest refining the mesh. 

 

[Rob]

It may also be possible to use layering in 2d axi-symmetric which would be much quicker depending on the rest of the model. 

[ft19]

thanks a lot for the answer but can you explain to me what I need to set inside the dynamic mesh and the boundary condition? Because my setting doesn't work and displays "not found zones face" or " negative volume" and I cannot understand why! 

thank you so much!