{"id":344548,"date":"2024-01-13T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T14:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/extract-external-fluid-region-in-fluent-meshing\/"},"modified":"2024-01-13T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T14:23:49","slug":"extract-external-fluid-region-in-fluent-meshing","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/extract-external-fluid-region-in-fluent-meshing\/","title":{"rendered":"Extract external fluid region in fluent meshing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone,<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">1<\/span>\u3001<span lang=\"EN-US\">I want to simulate external fluid flow but I fail to have the external flow geometry in DM. Because there are some solid bodies are tangential to each other at many points so I cannot successfully have boolean operation done in DM which will have error showing &#8220;resulting in non-manifold geometry&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">2<\/span>\u3001<span lang=\"EN-US\">Recently<\/span>\uff0c<span lang=\"EN-US\">I learnt that we can enclosure fluid region when imported CAD is only solid region. But I found it seems that it can only enclose for internal fluid region but not for external fluid region.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">3\u3001So here is my question: I want to make boolean operation for this kind of tangential geometry in Fluent Meshign to have my external fluid flow region like we used to do in&nbsp; CAD phase. Is it feasible&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-344548","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-desingmodeler-cad-geometry-solidworks-parameters","topic-tag-external-aero","topic-tag-fluentmeshing-1","topic-tag-fluidflowfluent-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["51510","199842"],"_bbp_author_ip":["96.7.218.223"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_bbp_likes_count":["1"],"_btv_view_count":["1484"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["344548"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["51510","199842"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["344832"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["344832"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-01-16 02:36:59"]},"test":"bfdef4e41fe840e99014e0c0ef18055b3cd7380f"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/344548","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\/344548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}