Nodes Mesh

- September 11, 2019 at 10:57 am
  
  hugo CFD
  Subscriber
  
  When we meshed a solid in fluent, statistics show the number of elements and the number of nodes in the object.
  
  If we consider a cube with hexahedric elements, the number of nodes corresponds to each vertex of the cube, according to the mesh module statistics.
  
  My question is: Since fluent uses the finite volume method in discretization, wouldn't the number of nodes be expected to correspond to just one in the center of the element?
  
  Thank You
- September 11, 2019 at 2:01 pm
  
  Rob
  Ansys Employee
  
  Probably not. You're looking at the stats in ANSYS Meshing which doesn't know how the solver uses the mesh, only that it needs cells.

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