{"id":183467,"date":"2024-09-11T10:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T10:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/?post_type=topic&#038;p=183467"},"modified":"2024-09-11T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T10:45:47","slug":"how-to-check-mesh-quality-in-discovery-refine-stage","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-check-mesh-quality-in-discovery-refine-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"How to check mesh quality in Discovery Refine Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Discovery 2024R2, you can set the mesh metrics monitored during the solve and specify limits for those metrics. After meshing, you are notified if any selected meshing criteria are not met.<\/p>\n<p>For <strong>Fluids simulations<\/strong>, those include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Orthogonal quality<\/strong> (on by default) \u2013 lower limit (default 0.1)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Skewness<\/strong> (off by default) \u2013 upper limit (default 0.95)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aspect ratio<\/strong> (off by default) \u2013 upper limit (default 20)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Default mesh metrics are set in the in the Physics Settings, but you can also specify mesh metrics for this particular simulation in the Simulations Options.<\/p>\n<p>The video explains how to use the Fluid Mesh Quality option in Discovery Refine stage to check and improve mesh quality.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vidyard_iframe\" src=\"\/\/play.vidyard.com\/iYB4DG3Hzqs7H5cLX3ccHM.html?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-183468\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/TitleCard.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/TitleCard.png 1783w, https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/TitleCard-275x300.png 275w, https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/TitleCard-940x1024.png 940w, https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/TitleCard-768x837.png 768w, https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/TitleCard-1410x1536.png 1410w, https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/TitleCard-22x24.png 22w, https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/TitleCard-33x36.png 33w, https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/TitleCard-44x48.png 44w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-183467","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_edit_lock":["1726644219:3452"],"_edit_last":["3452"],"_btv_view_count":["3900"],"filter_by_optics_product":["Lumerical"],"_filter_by_optics_product":["field_64fb192ba3121"],"application_name":[""],"_application_name":["field_64a80903c8e15"],"family":[""],"_family":["field_64a809229a857"],"siebel_km_number":[""],"_siebel_km_number":["field_63ecbffce60db"],"salesforce_km_number":[""],"_salesforce_km_number":["field_63ecc018e60dc"],"km_published_date":[""],"_km_published_date":["field_64c77704499dd"],"product_version":[""],"_product_version":["field_64c776cb4fd2e"],"_bbp_forum_id":["159543"],"_bbp_topic_id":["183471"],"_bbp_author_ip":["2401:4900:1c17:b34a:6dc3:fa4d:788f:9eec"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["0"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["183469"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-09-11 10:44:21"],"_bbp_reply_count":["0"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["0"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["90"],"_yoast_wpseo_estimated-reading-time-minutes":["1"],"_bbp_likes_count":["1"]},"test":"watchlearnansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/183467","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/183467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183471,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/183467\/revisions\/183471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}