{"id":165934,"date":"2023-03-17T13:10:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T13:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-locate-bad-quality-cells-in-a-deformed-mesh-in-fluent\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:27:00","slug":"how-to-locate-bad-quality-cells-in-a-deformed-mesh-in-fluent","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-locate-bad-quality-cells-in-a-deformed-mesh-in-fluent\/","title":{"rendered":"How to locate bad quality cells in a deformed mesh in Fluent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please refer to the attachments to access the Solution.  The first video 2058020-19x.mp4 is for all the versions up to 19R2 version. The second video 2058020-2019R1.mp4 is for the version starting at 2019R1.  For the previous versions to 2019R1 &#8211; create a cell register based on cell quality: &#8220;Cell Equivolume Skew&#8221; (&#8220;Orthogonal Quality&#8221; can be chosen as well)  In Adapt>Mark\/Adapt Cells>Iso-Value select Mesh and Cell Equivolume Skew, and enter 0.99 and 1 as Min and max namely. Click on Mark to validate  The number of marked cells will be displayed in the TUI panel  &#8211; display the marked cells  In Adapt>Manage Register panel, select the register you just created and click Display  You can adjust display by setting the appropriate settings in the Options&#8230; box<\/p>\n<p>Attachments:<br \/>\n1. <a href=https:\/\/ansys13.ansys.com\/KnowledgeArticles\/Phase-1\/2058020\/2058020-19x.mp4>2058020-19x.mp4<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href= https:\/\/ansys13.ansys.com\/KnowledgeArticles\/Phase-1\/2058020\/2058020-2019r1.mp4>2058020-2019r1.mp4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-165934","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-fluent-post-processing","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-other","topic-tag-post-processing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["3-15-2023  20:20:53"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_btv_view_count":["1824"],"siebel_km_number":["2058020"],"product_version":["Other"],"km_published_date":["2019-01-17T22:12:47.000Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["FLUENT"]},"test":"solution"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/165934","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\/165934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}