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I have got bad element quality on highly curved surfaces when creating an ICEM CFD Hexa mesh with high boundary resolution for Fluent. What can I do to improve the mesh quality?

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    • January 25, 2023 at 7:16 am
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      Set the following parameter to get a higher degree in face interpolation when generating the mesh on the highly curved surface: Settings –> Meshing Options –> Hexa Meshing –> Transfinite Degree –> Quadratic Be aware that this can produce inverted elements in bowtie-shaped blocks where linear would work fine. Keywords: ICEM CFD Hex, Fluent, quality, bad element, highly curved surface

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