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How To Create A 2D Mesh Body For Fluent in Designmodeler: 1 © 2015 Ansys, Inc

How to Create a 2D Mesh Body for FLUENT in DesignModeler

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How to Create a 2D Mesh Body for FLUENT

in DesignModeler

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Index

• Description
• Important Notes
• Creating a Basic Surface
Body
• Creating Multiple Surface
Bodies
– Drawing Multiple Sketches
– Creating Lines from One Sketch
• Reversing the Orientation of
the Surface

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Description

Creating a Mesh will be necessary when you want to analyse


your model for simulations such as fluid dynamics.

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Important Notes

• The Body should be a Surface Body


• The direction of the Surface Body is oriented towards the
front (+Z direction)
– Note: up to R13
• Create the Surface Body in the XY plane
• If there is 2D axis symmetry, the center axis is the X axis and
the body is created on the +Y side

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Creating a Basic Surface Body

This is the most basic method of creating a Body.


1. Create a Sketch in the XY Plane.
2. Create an outline in a loop-like fashion to ensure that edges
do not branch or cross.
3. Under the Concept tab, select Surfaces from Sketches and
click the Generate button.

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Creating Multiple Surface Bodies

There are two main ways of doing this, both of which require
you to create them with the Add Frozen tool:
• Drawing multiple Sketches
• Creating Lines from One Sketch

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Drawing Multiple Sketches

Note: It is possible to have one sketch if the edge of each loop is


not connected to each other, and are otherwise independent.
Draw a Sketch for each body and generate each Surface Body.
Edges will overlap, but the mesh will still connect if it fits in Part.

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Creating Lines from One Sketch

1. Draw all the edges in one Sketch. Branching is allowed in this


method.

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Creating Lines from One Sketch

2. Under the Concept tab, select Lines from Sketches. Click


Generate.

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Creating Lines from One Sketch

1. From the Concept Tab, select Surface from Edges from the
dropdown menu, and then click the Generate icon. Similarly,
select Surface from Edges to generate the other Surface
Body.

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Reversing the Orientation of the Surface

When creating Surface Bodies with the Lines from Sketches and
Surface from Sketches method, the surface’s normal may face
the back (in the –Z direction). Befpre version 13, unless
modified, edges between Bodies may not be connected when
generating the mesh.

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Reversing the Orientation of the Surface

To check if the normal is facing the back:


Select all the faces of the Surface Bodies, and view the object
from the +Z side. If the face is green, then the normal is pointing
in the +Z direction. If the face is not green, then the normal is
pointing in the –Z direction.

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Reversing the Orientation of the Surface

To fix this issue:


Under the Tools dropdown menu, click on Surface Flip. Select
the face that is in the wrong orientation and then click
Generate.

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