{"id":41977,"date":"2020-03-21T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T11:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/help-for-mesh-element-reduction\/"},"modified":"2020-03-21T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T11:56:50","slug":"help-for-mesh-element-reduction","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/help-for-mesh-element-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Help for Mesh element reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\">Hi<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\"><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\">I have these wavy solids and I want to simulate airflow passing through them. I have subtracted these solids from the fluid domain. The main geometry I have is around 40*40 cm and the bigger rectangle for fluid domain is only 50 cm longer at each side.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\"><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\">As the academic version does not allow for more than 512K mesh elements, how can I reduce this number? In my first try, I had around 46M elements !!! I tried reducing the number of divisions in the sizing. However, the element number increased to 49M.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\"><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\">How can I reduce the number to under 512K?<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\">Should I suppress the wavy solids?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/85bc4991-80f7-4d24-b84a-ab7f017682ce\/7c112566-7435-46ee-a37d-ab8500c49f11_3.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\" width=\"824\" height=\"370\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/85bc4991-80f7-4d24-b84a-ab7f017682ce\/e1fb1d26-0976-48c6-9914-ab8500c4b3f8_2.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/85bc4991-80f7-4d24-b84a-ab7f017682ce\/fa66afb6-670d-419e-a05b-ab8500c4bf4a_4.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/85bc4991-80f7-4d24-b84a-ab7f017682ce\/0bc20915-ad42-47af-b40c-ab8500c4c6da_1.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-41977","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["14157"],"_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"],"_btv_view_count":["4031"],"_bbp_subscription":["248593"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["41977"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["62","240","174374"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["5"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["108654"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["108654"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-03-23 05:30:07"]},"test":"kianamousavi"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/41977","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\/41977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}