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Generic Combustor
(CFD Mesh Tetra Prism)
Workbench Meshing
Meshing Workshop
The following workshop demonstrates an easy and efficient procedure to generate a high
quality mesh for a typical combustion chamber geometry. The mesh core is made of
tetrahedral elements; the boundary layers are resolved using prism elements.
Please note that ANSYS Meshing has several other global and local mesh controls that can
be used to control the mesh creation and quality. Those additional controls are not
discussed here, for more information please consult the ANSYS Meshing User Guide.
The mesh is made of approximately 36 Million cells. Once all the controls were set, the
mesh shown in this workshop was created in approximately 90 minutes on a 64 bit
Windows machine with 16GB of RAM.
If you are using ANSYS FLUENT, you can reduce the cell count by converting the
tetrahedral elements to polyhedral elements.
Fast and robust process meshing process to be completed in less than a day
Process should be easy to learn and use
Capture boundary layers with prisms
Locally refined mesh in combustion chamber
Ability to parameterize the model if needed
Geometry files: generic_combustor.x_t and boi_bodies.x_t
6. Click Generate
These bodies will be used to control the sizes inside the combustion chamber,
where we do not have any other geometric entities to define sizes. These bodies
can be easily created in Design Modeler. For convenience, these bodies are
already created and saved in Parasolid format. You can also control sizes inside
the volume with growth ratio, sizing tools such as sphere of influence etc.
8. Merge Faces
The periodic faces should have the same dimension and topology.
As shown in figure, the highlighted edge of each periodic face vary in length.
8. Merge Faces
Select the periodic faces, RMB and select hide faces
There are smaller faces on each periodic side with different dimensions.
Merge the 2 smaller faces on each side with adjacent larger faces as shown in Figure to
remove the small edges.
Insert Tools -> Merge
Select faces to be merged (Select 8 faces, 4 on each side).
Set Merge Boundary Edges option to Yes
8. Merge Faces
After merging, the faces will appear as shown
11. From the Project Page, RMB on Mesh and select Edit to
open the Meshing Application
15. Define specific names for 2D regions so that they can be used to create different
boundaries in Fluent
Click on Model in the model tree and select Named Selection from the tool bar
Size 0.8
Size 0.5
Or
Go to Project Page
Drag and Drop CFX or Fluent from Component
systems on the Mesh branch
You can also drag and drop Fluid Flow (CFX ) or
Fluid Flow (Fluent) from Analysis system on the
Mesh branch