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I don&#8217;t care in that regard whether its tri&#8217;s or quads, but the mesh on the top and bottom needs to be identical.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I have a figure I will attach to show this process.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>What I did was try to enforce periodicity by angle, because since those surfaces are parallel I thought it would be the easiest option. I then meshed with octree meshing, and although the meshes were similar on the top and bottom I still had some problems around the edges.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Can you offer some advice on how I can get those surfaces to have identical meshes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-28261","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hello, thanks for looking at this, I have a question about meshing in ICEM CFD. I looked through the documentation, and I think ICEM CFD can do what I want. 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