Examining Interfaces

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Examining Interfaces

In this section, the various methods of checking the successful intersection of an interface are discussed. These methods include:

checking the boundary icons;

examining the intersection report;

displaying the interface boundaries; and

displaying remainder boundaries.

Examining an interface is important as it determines the integrity of the connection between or across the mesh from one boundary to another. Incomplete interfaces will result in a loss of continuum information being transferred, resulting in a less accurate solution.

The typical causes of the intersection process failing are:

selecting the wrong boundary pairs;

forgetting to set the rotational axis direction or setting the wrong direction for axisymmetric cases;

incorrect tolerance setting; and

the boundaries are not coincident in space or aligned correctly.

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