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Appendix 3 Additional Shell Meshing Features: Introduction To ANSYS Icem CFD

This document provides an overview of additional meshing features in ANSYS including the patch dependent mesher boundary and repair options, force mapping, projecting interior nodes to surfaces, and adapting the interior mesh. It also describes the shrinkwrap meshing method which can quickly generate a surface mesh by partially projecting a Cartesian cube to complex geometry, though it cannot recognize sharp features. Options for the number of smoothing iterations and surface projection factor are discussed.

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Appendix 3 Additional Shell Meshing Features: Introduction To ANSYS Icem CFD

This document provides an overview of additional meshing features in ANSYS including the patch dependent mesher boundary and repair options, force mapping, projecting interior nodes to surfaces, and adapting the interior mesh. It also describes the shrinkwrap meshing method which can quickly generate a surface mesh by partially projecting a Cartesian cube to complex geometry, though it cannot recognize sharp features. Options for the number of smoothing iterations and surface projection factor are discussed.

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Appendix 3

Additional Shell Meshing Features


16.0 Release

Introduction to ANSYS
ICEM CFD
© 2015 ANSYS, Inc. September 2, 2015 1 Release 16.0
Patch Dependent Mesher - Boundary option
Boundary
• Protect given line elements
Standard
– Keeps existing line elements which are
smaller than the Ignore size
– Grayed out unless Respect line elements is on
• Smooth boundaries
– Smoothes mesh boundaries after mesh Simple
generation. Ignores curve mesh settings
• Offset type
Interior
• Force mapping
– Forces mapped mesh on regular (4 sided)
surfaces to desired degree (0-1)
– Adjusts the number of nodes on opposite
sides (0.2 = change number nodes by 20%)
• Project to surfaces
– Interior nodes project to surface rather than
interpolate position
• Adapt mesh interior Would require too many
nodes increased from
– Allows transition to larger element size in the original setting based
interior of the surface (uses surface max size ) on force mapping
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Patch Dependent Mesher - Repair option
• Repair
– Try harder
• For loops that fail with requested paving algorithm
• Levels (1-3) make further attempts to create grid
• 0 - No further attempts, failed surface(s) marked and put into a
subset
• 1 - Simple triangulation of surface, converted to requested type
• 2 - Same as 1, but dormant curves activated
• 3 - Run octree, same as patch independent
– Improvement Level
• Levels (0-3) to improve mesh quality
• 0 - Laplace smoothing only
• 1 - STL tri mode, with conversion to quads (if requested)
• 2 – tri to quad conversion, splitting of bad quads
• 3 - allow nodes to move off boundary with smoothing

• Other options and fuller descriptions may be found in the Help


menu.

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Shrinkwrap
Cartesian (rectilinear) method
• Can ignore larger features, gaps, holes
Cube faces partially projected to geometry
Quickest method for creating surface mesh
Can’t recognize sharp features
• Currently in development phase
Best for “wrapping” complicated geometry
• Quick and dirty surface meshing of complex geometries
For “solid” models
• Not recommended for thin sheet solids
Options
• No. of smooth iterations
– To improve grid quality
• Surface projection factor
– To fully project to original geometry (1.0), to not
project at all (0.0), or partially (0.0 < factor < 1.0)

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