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[eklein12]

Hello, 

I have been using adjoint solver with great success for 2D bare tubes over air cross flow. Picture of my design attached. After the optimizations are complete I am attempting to extract the final geometry/mesh, but am having trouble finding a way to do this. Is there a way to export finalized 2D geometry? Eventually I would like to re-mesh the final geometry to perform a grid convergence index study. Additionally, I would like to export to a CAD program so that I can modify the design and prepare/extrude to create a .stl for 3D printing. 

These are long term goals, but first I am just trying to find a way to export this mesh/geometry out of the fluent .cas file and am running into a wall. I have looked into potentially using ICEM, but this has failed to load my fluent cases.

Any help Is appreciated!!

[Rob]

Resave as .cas.gz (Legacy format) and try ICEM CFD again.  The h5 format is newer, and the mesh readers in ICEM CFD may not have been updated. 

[eklein12]

Thank you for the advice Rob. I re-tried with the .cas.gz format. file ==> import mesh ==> from fluent. And nothing seems to be happening or appearing on the screen besides the dialogue below. I waited an hour just in case as the mesh is 30,000 elements. Perhaps I am missing something as I am new to using ICEM. Many Thanks.

 

[eklein12]

Hello, 

Following up, I was able to get it to successfully load into ICEM if I saved it as simply .cas and not .cas.h5. For some reason the .cas.gz files were not loading. Thank you for the help Rob. 

[Rob]

OK, it looks like the ICEM CFD reader doesn't like the zipped (.gz) case format either. Good to hear it's working.