Running the Polyhedral Volume Mesher

The polyhedral and prism layer meshers can now be run:

As before, the output from the meshers will be shown in the Output window and status updated in the status bar. When the process is complete, the message Reordering faces in region Solid body... done will be shown in the Output window. A summary of the mesh quality criteria (namely, the cell quality, face validity, skewness angle and volume ratio) for the core and prism meshes can be viewed by scrolling the Output window display up.

To view the volume mesh representation, do the following:

The scene will be updated to show the polyhedral volume mesh with a prismatic near wall layer for the fluid region:

A close up of the mesh in the vicinity of the inlet plenum is shown below:

The properties of the fluid volume mesh can be seen by selecting the Representations>Volume Mesh>Finite Volume Regions>Fluid body node.

Similarly, the Solid body node contains the solid mesh properties:

Please note that the exact values for cells, interior faces and vertices will differ slightly to the above depending on the machine precision.

This completes the second meshing tutorial.