{"id":33403,"date":"2019-02-20T12:47:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/error-in-meshing\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T12:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:47:39","slug":"error-in-meshing","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/error-in-meshing\/","title":{"rendered":"Error in meshing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am doing a flow analysis of solar panels and their supporting structure. It involves parts of supporting structure which are as small as 8e-04 thickness and the whole enclosure is of about 70m x70mx 10m. The problem is when i try to mesh them using edge sizing for very large edges(~10m) and very small ones with appropriate element sizes it consistently throws up three errors:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>message 1:<br \/> Ansys mesh the surface mesh is intersecting or close to intersecting making it difficult to create a volume mesh please adjust the mesh size or adjust the geometry to fix the problem.<br \/> message 2:<br \/> A mesh could not be generated using the current meshing options and settings<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>message 3:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">The mesh generation did not complete due to poor quality elements or incorrect input.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">I tried pinching, virtual topology as well as keeping the element size and max face size very low(which sometimes freezes the computer) to no avail. I am wondering whether i could remove the small edges but the thing is i intend to perform stress analysis using the flow data which probably could affect the results&nbsp; Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-33403","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["5575"],"_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":["12505"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["33403"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["199","159397"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["78944"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["78944"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-02-28 12:12:04"]},"test":"sam_5195"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/33403","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\/33403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}