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[Brennan Donovan]

I'm a senior engineering student modeling an inflatable tower. I've been struggling to get an accurate pressure simulation and airflow simulation out of Fluent due to modeling the tower as a surface. Since there won't be any thermal measures, I decided to build the model as a thin surface model hoping I could define these as boundary conditions. However, whenever I import the geometry into fluent, I recieve the following error: 

Shortly after, it returns me to Workbench with a separate error code. I'm unsure how to progress from here as I have tried adding thickness to the model with very little success. ANSYS's geometry import or meshing fails so I'm lost on how to proceed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[Rob]

In Fluent you need the volume mesh of the fluid space (solids too sometimes). Do a couple of the tutorials to get an idea of the workflow and how Fluent works.