{"id":232949,"date":"2022-08-15T06:46:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T06:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/adaptive-mesh-2019-r3\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T10:18:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T10:18:30","slug":"adaptive-mesh-2019-r3","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/adaptive-mesh-2019-r3\/","title":{"rendered":"Adaptive Mesh &#8211; 2019 R3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, I am trying to simulate water droplets with a high contact angle rolling along a plate (wall), induced by incoming air velocity. I have achieved decent results with fixed quad mesh but now I am looking to adapt the mesh as the droplets roll into one another. Unsure how to properly edit mesh over each timestep.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am aware that the newest versions of Fluent have Predefined Criteria with multiphase-VOF, in addition to General Apation Controls. 2019 R3 is currently at my disposal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Current mesh domain elements: 2e-5 m&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Key Fluent settings:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transient, pressure-based, gravity enabled<\/li>\n<li>Model: VOF, explicit formulation, implicit body forces on<\/li>\n<li>Surface tension force modeling: on, continuum surface force on, wall adhesion on, surface tension coe: 0.072 (water\/air [n\/m])<\/li>\n<li>water contact angle: 155&deg;<\/li>\n<li>viscous model: k-omega sst&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Interest in LES model &#8211; <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Bounded Second Order Implicit Transient Formulation not available with <span>VOF<\/span><\/span><\/em>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fluent Settings\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/15-08-2022-1660545857-settings-min-min-min.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-232949","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-adaptivemesh-2","topic-tag-ansys-2019-r3-1","topic-tag-droplet","topic-tag-ExplicitVOF-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["240295","261248","301776","199"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.218.93.53"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1771"],"_edit_lock":["1660642712:165296"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["232949"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["199","240295","261248","301776"],"_bbp_voice_count":["4"],"_bbp_reply_count":["6"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["318931"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["318931"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-11-22 00:53:31"]},"test":"rusbel-ayalastudent-csulb-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/232949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/232949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}