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  3. Whenever I try to export the surface pressures from my transient acoustic analysis, I get the following error: “Error at host: Invalid element.”

Whenever I try to export the surface pressures from my transient acoustic analysis, I get the following error: “Error at host: Invalid element.”

Tagged: acoustics, compressible-flow, fluent, fluid-dynamics
    • January 25, 2023 at 7:16 am
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      The CGNS export for LMS and ANSYS Mechanical supports only triangles and quads. Any mesh element that is regarded as polygon (including cut-cell) would generate the error while exporting the surface pressure data. Keywords: CGNS, Error, Export, Acoustics

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