{"id":43091,"date":"2020-04-22T05:48:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T05:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/shared-topology-between-solid-and-midsurface-issue\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T05:48:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T05:48:39","slug":"shared-topology-between-solid-and-midsurface-issue","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/shared-topology-between-solid-and-midsurface-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared Topology between Solid and Midsurface Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently trying to mesh a long tube with bends (heat exchanger) along with the fluids inside and outside the tube. I&#8217;m interested in getting a conformal mesh between the tube and the inside fluid (I don&#8217;t care about the outside fluid so much). I&#8217;m first creating the midsurface of the tube, then&nbsp;I create a shared topology between the midsurface and the inside body, and then I create the mesh. To my demise, I don&#8217;t get a conformal mesh (connected nodes) where the midsurface and the body meet like I would want to.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/49e952d5-7a72-4cc6-95fd-ab7d01720c4e\/6fd606a1-9e63-4775-b80e-aba5005c0f4d_sharedtopo1.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Can anybody help as to what I&#8217;m missing?&nbsp;I have tried sharing the topology between the tube and the inside fluid&nbsp;using spaceclaim and designmodeler,&nbsp;but&nbsp;both don&#8217;t yield a conformal mesh.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/49e952d5-7a72-4cc6-95fd-ab7d01720c4e\/eef3175f-478e-4118-b388-aba5005f293f_sharedtopo2.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Warm Regards,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-43091","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["15272"],"_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":["1758"],"_bbp_subscription":["248548"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["43091"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["200","174328"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["112247"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["112247"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-04-23 15:35:19"]},"test":"rgarcia60"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/43091","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\/43091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}