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[Caleb Wood]

Hello,

I am trying to model the interaction between a numerical wave tank and the soil bed to examine the changes in pore pressure. The soil mesh is coarse compared to the ICFD mesh and both sit at the coordinate Z=0. Since the nodes do not align perfectly with one another, will they interact with one another correctly?

Thank you.

[amirz013]

In my experience the nodes do not need to match, however the solver does require the distance between the fluid and solid mesh nodes to be < 0.25*(min element size of entire model). More details for this can be found in the LSTC ICFD theory manual you can easily find online.