{"id":161481,"date":"2023-01-25T07:16:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/i-have-got-bad-element-quality-on-highly-curved-surfaces-when-creating-an-icem-cfd-hexa-mesh-with-high-boundary-resolution-for-fluent-what-can-i-do-to-improve-the-mesh-quality\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:35:22","slug":"i-have-got-bad-element-quality-on-highly-curved-surfaces-when-creating-an-icem-cfd-hexa-mesh-with-high-boundary-resolution-for-fluent-what-can-i-do-to-improve-the-mesh-quality","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/i-have-got-bad-element-quality-on-highly-curved-surfaces-when-creating-an-icem-cfd-hexa-mesh-with-high-boundary-resolution-for-fluent-what-can-i-do-to-improve-the-mesh-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"I have got bad element quality on highly curved surfaces when creating an ICEM CFD Hexa mesh with high boundary resolution for Fluent. What can I do to improve the mesh  quality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set the following parameter to get a higher degree in face interpolation when generating the mesh on the highly curved surface:  Settings &#8211;> Meshing Options &#8211;> Hexa Meshing &#8211;> Transfinite Degree &#8211;> Quadratic  Be aware that this can produce inverted elements in bowtie-shaped blocks where linear would work fine.  Keywords: ICEM CFD Hex, Fluent, quality, bad element, highly curved surface<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-161481","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-2021-r1","topic-tag-bad-element","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-fluids","topic-tag-hexa","topic-tag-highly-curved-surface","topic-tag-icem-cfd-hex","topic-tag-icem-cfd","topic-tag-quality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["1-24-2023  20:20:06"],"_btv_view_count":["921"],"siebel_km_number":["2064310"],"product_version":["2021 R1"],"km_published_date":["2021-04-12T21:33:12.000Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["ICEM CFD"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/161481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/161481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}