<div dir="ltr">Dear Gmsh Team,<div><br></div><div>My name is Rafael Zamorano, and I'm writing from Santiago (Chile) with a doubt about how to mesh with cubic elements a particular 3D domain (with interior holes) in Gmsh. As a context, I'm preparing a CFD simulation for a MSc in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile), working along Dr. Wolfram Jahn from the Mechanical Engineering Department. The work consists in validating the fireFoam solver (from the OpenFOAM utility) for large-scale LES turbulent diffusion flames. The experimental measurements come from Edinburgh, Scotland.</div><div><br></div><div>The mesh is for a 2x5x18 meter compartment with 12 squared-outlet burners, which code (".geo" file) is attached in this mail. The domain for the simulation looks like this:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_15e728b7a996b5e7" alt="Imágenes integradas 1" width="401" height="315" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><div><br></div><div>The interior cubes are the burners, which inject fuel through the superior face. Note that the additional 3D rectangular prism (in the right hand side of the image) is an outlet domain placed to capture the air entrainment and combustion gas outlet fluxes. The meshed 3D domain (with default Tetrahedral elements) looks like this:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_15e728c66b50bab8" alt="Imágenes integradas 2" width="404" height="319" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><div><br></div><div>The mesh has local refinement on the burner inlets, with 9cm elements. The general resolution per element is 30cm. The interior of the 12 cubic burners are UNMESHED. For this, I defined a Volume consisting of the outer surfaces as exterior walls, and the burner surfaces for inner surfaces (leaving the 12 burners as un-meshed 3D holes). The burners had to be a little bit lifted from the ground, because the mesher couldn't understand the holes sharing surfaces with the outer surfaces (Volume function restriction). Now, we<b> want to implement a cubic element mesh with the same local refinement</b>, but we can't get it to work right. We tried using the Extrude function, but the mesher keeps meshing the interior of the cubic burners (these need to remain unmeshed), basically the whole extrusion. Also, when using the extruding function, the Transfinite function for square elements wont work on the XZ plane, because the number of sides is incorrect. For reference, this XZ plane is the one shown here (not including the burner faces):</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_15e729dd54b608b2" alt="Imágenes integradas 3" width="544" height="411"><br></div><div><br></div><div>The mesh with tetrahedral elements works fine with the fireFoam solver, but we need to test the same one but with cubic elements. I attached the sceenshots shown, the ".geo" file, and the ".msh" file. It would be of great help if you have a solution for this issue. The Gmsh utility is excellent and intuitive (i saw all the Youtube tutorials and revised the manual), but this issue is troubling us.</div><div><br></div><div>With nothing more to add, i wish you a great year.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>RZ</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Rafael Zamorano Z.<div><b>Ing. Civil Mecánico Egresado</b></div><div><b>MSc(c)</b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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