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January 26, 2018 at 3:12 pm
lugolxy
SubscriberRecently I worked on meshing by Ansys workbench (Anasys 18.1) for fluent simulation. I need very fine mesh. When I set max mesh size to be 3um (The whole structure is about 1cm in size) and all tetrahedron, I got good mesh and the element number is about 400,000. Then I tried to improve the mesh and set the max mesh size to be 2.5um. However, I met an error as
A software execution error occurred inside the mesher. The process suffered an unhandled exception or ran out of usable memory
I monitored the memory usage of my windows 10 desktop with 32Gb Ram. It didn't reach to a high ram percentage. I wonder if you or anyone met this problem before and do you know a solution? Thank you very much. -
January 26, 2018 at 4:14 pm
raul.raghav
SubscriberCan you upload the workbench archive file so we could take a look at it?
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January 26, 2018 at 5:19 pm
lugolxy
SubscriberThanks a lot Rahul. Juan suggested me to re-scale it 1000 times. I tried it and it met the same problem. I also monitored the ram usage. It never exceeded 25%.
I made the geometry a little bit simpler and I could mesh the geometry by element size 2.5um, But it failed at 2um.
I uploaded the file on One Drive with the following link
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AgfqIquEsf9CpyobbbIudFIV6IfJ
Thank you very much.
Best,
Xinyu
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January 29, 2018 at 3:41 pm
raul.raghav
SubscriberXinyu, I looked at your geometry and your meshing approach. Although the dimensions of your geometry are quite small, the geometry itself is very simple. Why do you want a very fine all tetra mesh when you can easily create a hexa mesh for your geometry? And I'm not sure what the original geometry looks like but the simplified geometry is quite straightforward to mesh. Attached is the workbench archive file with an all hexa mesh for your geometry. You can play with the sizing numbers to make it as fine as you want. Let us know if it helps you. And i took the liberty to change the named selections based on your attached file, so please make sure its consistent with your problem.
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January 29, 2018 at 4:30 pm
lugolxy
SubscriberHi Rahul,
Thank you very much. Yes the hexa mesh is very helpful. Actually the reason I use tetra mesh is to test the difference between tetra and hexa elements. People always use hexa for this kind of simple geometry. So I'd like to test how tetra mesh affects the result. Thank you!
Best,
Xinyu
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January 30, 2018 at 4:04 pm
raul.raghav
SubscriberXinyu, as you mentioned 2um body sizing shows the error as you mentioned, while 2.5um works. And I tried it across two computers with varying configurations and it didn't seem to make any difference. I read more about the Patch Conforming tetra mesh and it was mentioned that it was a bottom-up approach where meshing starts from the edges, surfaces and then finally the body. I tried refining it using edge and face sizings and I was able to generate a mesh with approximately 10M elements. However, even that approach eventually shows the same error below a certain size.
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January 30, 2018 at 4:21 pm
lugolxy
SubscriberGot it. Really helpful. Thank you very much. Could you also attach the file or snipped images showing the setup that you refined edge and face first and then body mesh? I am still new to ansys workbench. Thanks.
Best,
Xinyu
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