gambit-2.3-Lecture-06a--VolumeMeshing.pptVIP

Volume Meshing Approach A high-quality hex mesh is generally preferred over a tet mesh. Reduced discretization error and false numerical diffusion for a given mesh size. Significantly lower cell count Example: Compare the cell count for a 10×10×10 cube using hex and tet with a cell size of 1. Hex mesh generates 1,000 cells. Tet mesh generates 7,726 cells! For a hex mesh, geometries typically need to be decomposed into simpler ones so that one of the hex meshing schemes can be used. In some cases, the geometry can be very complex. Hex meshing can be expensive or impractical. In these cases, a tet or hybrid mesh is preferred in order to reduce meshing effort. Volume Meshing Upon picking a volume GAMBIT will automatically choose a type based on the solver selected and the combination of the face Types of the volume. In ambiguous cases, GAMBIT chooses the Tet/Hybrid: TGrid combination Available element/scheme type combinations Hex Map, Submap, Tet Primitive, Cooper, Stairstep Hex/Wedge Cooper Tet/Hybrid TGrid, HexCore Volume Meshes - Hex Examples Hex – Map Hex -- Submap Hex – Tet Primitive Hex – Cooper Hex/Wedge and Tet/Hybrid Examples Hex/Wedge: Cooper Tet/Hybrid: TGrid Tet/Hybrid: HexCore Hex Meshing – Map A mappable volume: Is a logical cube Has all faces either mappable or submappable Has topologically matching mesh on all faces. Hex Meshing – Submap Hex Meshing – Tet Primitive Tet-Primitive scheme All hex elements in a four-sided (tetrahedral) volume Volumes directly meshable using Tet Primitive scheme How the tet primitive scheme works Connect center points on edges, faces and the volume Mesh the four subvolumes using the map scheme. Hex Meshing – Cooper The Cooper scheme projects or extrudes a face mesh (or a set of face meshes) from one end of a volume to the other and then divides up the extruded mesh to form the volume mesh. The projection direction is referred to as the Cooper direction. Faces topologically perpendicular