Sharing topology between hexa- and tetra-mesh
Hi. I'd like to simulate a shell&tube heat exchanger. The tube side is made of 85 tubes, connected from both sides to two manifolds, as in picture (halfened geometry):
The tubes and the manifolds are different bodies grouped into one single component.
I'd like to build a conforming mesh so that the tubes are made of hexahedra and manifolds of tetrahedra, like this:
Unfortunately I'm not able to achieve this, since the mesh fails due to "Patch-conforming tetrahedron mesh failed possibly because of bad boundary mesh". I set the option "Merge" in the Shared Topology menu in SpaceClaim.
I tried also to set the option "Share" in the Shared Topology menu, but it says that it's impossible to generate a mesh.
If i set "None", edges of the meshes don't match.
Help me, please.
Answers
Hello,
Please try to use the 'Share Topology' option under the WorkBench Tab of SpaceClaim (Sharing -> Share)
Try this and let us know if you are seeing a conformal mesh.
Once you obtain a mesh, please make sure that the overall quality is good.
Thank you.
Karthik
It works! Thank you so much!
Excellent!