{"id":396237,"date":"2024-12-04T10:14:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T10:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/396237\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T10:14:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T10:14:48","slug":"396237","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/396237\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Extremely low orthogonality mesh while quality is satisfied in ICEM CFD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;d not use ICEM CFD for anything other than turbo applications, even then I&#8217;d use Fluent Meshing or make a colleague do it. For river\/tidal flows I&#8217;d use an unstructured mesh and sweep &#8220;down&#8221; if I needed a CFD level solution. 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