


{"id":319158,"date":"2023-11-23T10:13:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/negative-cell-volume-detected-in-dynamic-mesh\/"},"modified":"2024-01-14T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T19:00:08","slug":"negative-cell-volume-detected-in-dynamic-mesh","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/negative-cell-volume-detected-in-dynamic-mesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Cell Volume detected in Dynamic Mesh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am running a two-way Fluent-Mechanical simulation of a shelf (100x3x200mm; xyz) immersed in a tank (300x500x300mm; xyz) filled with a liquid and a gas using VOF method. The tank is subject to the force of gravity and a harmonic force acting along the x-axis with a frequency f=2Hz. Since I wanted the liquid to be initialized with an angle of 10&deg; I have created a region register with cylinder shape with the coordinates shown below. The other settings are shown below as well.<br \/>When I launch the analysis it stops at a certain time step for &#8220;Negative cell volume detected&#8221;. I have tried to reduce the time-step but it stops even earlier in the simulation. Furthermore, looking at force report (from Fluent) and displacements report (from Mechanical) I have noticed that in the time step that leads to the error, the force and the displacements increase inexplicably and I am not understanding the reason if everything is going well until that time step. To visualize the cells with negative volume I have created a volume register and a iso-surface.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Mesh\" href=\"https:\/\/ibb.co\/61VVWmQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mesh of the shelf and a plane in the middle of the tank at t=0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mesh of a plane in the middle of the tank\" href=\"https:\/\/ibb.co\/zHTP3MW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mesh of a plane in the middle of the tank at t=0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Register region settings\" href=\"https:\/\/ibb.co\/89MXwBR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register region settings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Displacement of the shell at last time step\" href=\"https:\/\/ibb.co\/1XwHhx0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Displacement of the shell at last time step<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Iso-surface with negative volume cells and a plane along the tank\" href=\"https:\/\/ibb.co\/T1FL5tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iso-surface with negative volume cells and a plane along the tank at last time step<\/a> &#8211;&gt; I think that the weird shape of the negative volume cells is due to the register region that I have created to patch the liquid region since it goes from the minimum coordinates and maximum coordinates that I have selected for the region register. I am not sure of this.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Register region with tank and negative volume cells\" href=\"https:\/\/ibb.co\/QJHVH6r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register region with tank and negative volume cells<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Display of the shelf and negative volume cells at last time step\" href=\"https:\/\/ibb.co\/SsXFTCP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Display of the shelf and negative volume cells at last time step pt.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Display of the shelf and negative volume cells al last time step pt.2\" href=\"https:\/\/ibb.co\/7RFsf1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Display of the shelf and negative volume cells al last time step pt.2<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dynamic Mesh Settings: Smoothing (Diffusion method with Diffusion Parameter: 1.5) and Remeshing (Unified Remeshing).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can anyone point me a solution or a way to understand what is failing during the analysis?&nbsp;<br \/>Feel free to ask any other information that you may need. Thanks in advance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-319158","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["28646","13659","100009"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.206.193.146"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["883"],"_edit_lock":["1700748210:232903"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["319158"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["13659","28646","100009"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["15"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["341251"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["341251"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-12-20 11:36:39"],"_bbp_notification_enabled":["535996"]},"test":"s291699studenti-polito-it"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/319158","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\/319158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}