{"id":33103,"date":"2019-02-06T10:47:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T10:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-fluent-operation-would-result-in-non-manifold-bodies\/"},"modified":"2019-02-06T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T10:47:30","slug":"ansys-fluent-operation-would-result-in-non-manifold-bodies","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-fluent-operation-would-result-in-non-manifold-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"ANSYS FLUENT &#8211; Operation would result in non manifold bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\">I am currently modelling a geothermal earth air heat exchanger entering a room (a box). There is then a vent on the other side of the room that is attached to a solar chimney which will accelerate the air out the house.&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;\"><br style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;\"><span style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\">I have modelled so far in design modeller the house attached to geothermal pipes. I was looking to test a simulation at this stage but have come across the enclosure error. I tried using the enclosure tool but this failed to work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;\"><span style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\">As I am modelling the heat transfer to the air through the pipes and then the mixing in the room I need to create an enclosure as a fluid domain. I was hoping to then do a boolean subtraction to leave me with the domain of air to be meshed.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I tried manually creating a frozen fluid body around the model and tried a boolean subtraction but got the &#8220;Operation would result in non manifold bodies&#8221; error.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;\"><span style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\">Any advise on how to proceed would be appreciated!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/59fcd444-eb14-42f4-b250-a9ec00adb3ba\/2fa3d997-0f69-4047-b2f5-a9ec00b1ce8d_screenshot-2019-02-06-at-10.19.36.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"Geometry\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-33103","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["5275"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0","0","0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["12979"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["33103"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_engagement":["62","199","240","162282"],"_bbp_voice_count":["4"],"_bbp_reply_count":["12"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["77142"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["77142"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-02-07 14:18:01"]},"test":"colintho"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/33103","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\/33103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}