{"id":42169,"date":"2020-03-28T11:53:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T11:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/unable-to-achieve-conformal-mesh-between-fluid-extracted-volume-bodies\/"},"modified":"2020-03-28T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T11:53:58","slug":"unable-to-achieve-conformal-mesh-between-fluid-extracted-volume-bodies","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/unable-to-achieve-conformal-mesh-between-fluid-extracted-volume-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Unable to achieve conformal mesh between fluid extracted volume bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hello,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">I am having issues with my meshing. My geometry consists of 2 pipelines and a tank in the middle. As you can see in the picture there are 6 bodies (different colors). To get the fluid volume, I used volume extract in SpaceClaim. Yet it only worked when done on separate bodies (tried to form 1 new part then generate 1 unique fluid volume, but that didn&#8217;t work). So I ended up in several fluid bodies.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hence, my mesh is non-conformal between these fluids extracted volumes. Even if i apply 1 unique shape for my mesh (for example hex), the nodes between bodies are not connected.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">I formed 1 component combining all generated bodies in spaceclaim and assigned shared topology (didn&rsquo;t work). I even tried to merge surfaces of generated volumes, yet the merge tool didn&rsquo;t work (neither spaceclaim nor DM). I tried to delete the contact surfaces between the bodies (i.e. the ones enclosing the generated volume) in spaceclaim, yet this results in non-conformal mesh which is even empty from the inside!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The only thing that kind of worked was tetrahedral meshing using patch independent algorithm. However sometimes the meshing process doesn&rsquo;t end or ends with errors. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Hope I can get some help,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/f0f512d2-3098-4cab-bfb0-ab8a01689aba\/5f025fc0-10f1-402b-9488-ab8c00bc92b4_mesh-picture.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"non conformal mesh between fluid bodies\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-42169","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["14349"],"_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":["359"],"_bbp_subscription":["249064"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["42169"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["62","174858"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["5"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["109668"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["109668"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-04-01 02:30:53"]},"test":"monas23"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/42169","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\/42169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}