[CFD] Hexcore Meshes for CFD

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An introduction to hexcore volume meshes for CFD. This includes poly-hexcore, hexa-interior and hexcore approaches.
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0:00 Introduction
7:15 Hexcore Transitions
13:21 Buffer Layers
19:09 Alternative Transition
22:52 Top-Down Approach
28:20 Summary
29:55 Outro
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@lucashf7340 2 күн бұрын

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@aritrachakraborty5232 2 ай бұрын

Hey Aidan, I have very recently started trying my hand in CFD in an industrial setup after a career in experimental combustion. Your videos, are almost always! on the pain points that I encounter and I am so glad to have come by them. I respect you for curating the content which in my view, is really kickass-->"no bullshit! approach" and valuing the viewer's time spent listening to your experience/solutions. Looking forward to many more. Cheers!

@mridhor 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. Your way of explaining makes things clear and understandable

@TRONN44 Жыл бұрын

Very informative, filling the lack of background knowledge on Hexcore mesh. Thank you for this brilliant explanation and video!

@ferasalgafary9063 Жыл бұрын

This is an amazing topic thank you

@hungnguyenthanh8833 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Dr Aidan Wimshurst for taking the time and resources to make these very useful content. Have a nice day! Love from Vietnam.

@jaydeepsingh7226 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Dr Aidan Wimshurst for taking the time and resources to make these very useful content. Have a great day! Love from India.

@aromeran Жыл бұрын

What a great video as usual, thanks a lot!

@felipecastro5587 4 ай бұрын

I work with CFD and discovering your channel was an amazing surprise! You do an excellent work with all these lectures, decomplicating CFD and making it more acessible to users. Thank you so much for you work!

@user-qt2fy9rd3c Жыл бұрын

Love the video about mesh!! Hope there could be more!

@ankitdave9193 Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for sharing such an insightful content on an important topic.

@71Kailee 7 ай бұрын

Aidan as always with your content, this video is a great resource for those learning about CFD in general and meshing specifically. One teenie weenie small comment: a single polyhedral cell is a Polyhedr_on_, not polyhedr_a_ (same with the hexahedron etc)... But I might very well have been mishearing - in which case I apologize for picking up on this. Please continue to generate such high quality content - it's enormously valuable!!!!

@EclecticVibe Жыл бұрын

This is going to be good!

@hardiksharda9673 Жыл бұрын

Amazing! Thank You! Dr. Aidan

@erockromulan9329 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video, as always. I just landed a career in this field and I am having such a blast! My employer is tasking me with hooking up 6 Nvidia A100s to run with the new Native GPU solver feature in Fluent 2023... It's going well, can't wait to have it fully setup

@fluidmechanics101 Жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome! Well done on landing the position. I hope you really enjoy it

@mohammadjadidi233 6 ай бұрын

Many thanks 🙏

@sergniko Жыл бұрын

this was a very usefull talk!

@sanjaykumaryadav3186 Жыл бұрын

Thank you sir

@jasonchu852 Жыл бұрын

very useful !

@jacobsss5827 7 ай бұрын

Amazing content

@edgardwiggers4855 4 ай бұрын

Awsome lecture. Thank you. I've been working on a LES (WALE) simulation of a flow over a flat plate, comparing results to a DNS solution, using openFoam (Foundation). Mesh was generated with blockMesh, so it was orthogonal (zero nonOrthogonal cells). I expected a good match with DNS, but it turned out to be far from it, particularly using stretched cells along the wall. Results start to get better (better matching to DNS) as the mesh is refined so that aspect ratio is close to 1. The problem is that the mesh gets really big, because the refinement close to the wall has to be extended to the whole domain. The only solution that I can figure for this is a Hexcore mesh. Let's see what happens next...

@user-ic7gn3lz4k Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the unique and informative videos! Can you tell me, please, is the polyHexcore type of mesh is the only reason of appearance of hanging nodes in the mesh, or there can be another reasons?

@fluidmechanics101 Жыл бұрын

I think this will depend on the settings in your mesh generator. Some mesh generators will produce a warning when hanging nodes are generated. It is hard to say in general though

@ammarlaichi8474 10 ай бұрын

Hello Dr. Can we use inflation in the laminar flow and how to calculate the first layer thickness or how method?

@TheManolis1984 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video. Is a video on polyhedral meshing on the works?

@fluidmechanics101 Жыл бұрын

Perhaps 🙃

@TheManolis1984 Жыл бұрын

@@fluidmechanics101 cool. It will be interesting as I used polyhedral meshing for my dissertation, I want to see what mistakes I did :)

@user-qt2fy9rd3c Жыл бұрын

Hi Dr Aidan! I am currently using a hexahedral core mesh, which is a good mesh type that greatly improves the convergence of the model. But in the more distant regions there will be numerical diffusion also yPlus will not satisfy the wallfunction.Will this affect the results in my relational region? (Assuming that the mesh in my region of interest is dense enough) Again no words can express my love!! :)

@fluidmechanics101 Жыл бұрын

Try refining the mesh with a 'size field' / 'sphere of influence' / 'local refinement' in the region you are worried about and see if it affects the results 👍

@user-qt2fy9rd3c Жыл бұрын

@@fluidmechanics101 Thanks a lot!!

@ironman-fc6qp 10 ай бұрын

If grid has hanging nodes, I think mostly finite volume approach is used. Are there any traditional way to employ finite difference method?

@oskarelmgren Жыл бұрын

Hex meshing real world geometry while trying to keep the big volume transitions away from areas with high gradients is really difficult (impossible?). Is there any rule of thumb to get a good idea as to when tet meshing is generally better? Dynamic meshing would be a super interesting topic also!

@fluidmechanics101 Жыл бұрын

My usual approach is to try structured hex first, then hexcore. If neither of these work then I will resort to tets. I tend to find the best approach is to use good hexes in the important areas and then do a small transition between them using tets. I will be showing some demos this year, so hopefully that will help!

@Michallote Жыл бұрын

What softwares are able to mesh hexcore?

@fluidmechanics101 Жыл бұрын

Fluent mesher (T-Grid) and ANSA are the ones that I use

@francootaola9172 Жыл бұрын

Hey Aidan are you planning to do a video un poly meshes? Lately I have seen so many people defending one or the other (hexa or poly meshes) would be great to have the other side of the coin and specifically a comparation... 😅 At the end of the day one is not entirely sure of where to go by listening contrary arguments

@fluidmechanics101 Жыл бұрын

Yes, there is still plenty of heated discussion in the 'hexcore Vs poly' debate!

@francootaola9172 Жыл бұрын

@@fluidmechanics101 I can see being a heated discussion around to try to not comment about but it would be awesome seeing your knowledge ❤️

@francootaola9172 Жыл бұрын

Then one uses snappyHexMesh and finishes with 24 faced polyhedral 😂😂

@surajmulay6212 Жыл бұрын

Can we do multiregion meshing with snappy hex mesh? Like ev battery?

@francootaola9172 Жыл бұрын

@@surajmulay6212 yes

@oskarelmgren Жыл бұрын

Yup. Probably the mesh "push back" phase that causes this. Which is a crazy problem to have. Why not offset the surface for the boundary layer mesh, and then mesh to that offset? But ok to be fair, should just make a custom version of shm to do that, but don't have the time! :D

@francootaola9172 Жыл бұрын

@@oskarelmgren it is what they are working on right now. Doing the layer first. I think (and it is only an opinion) that originally was done like that to add layers to meshes done in others meshers.

@oskarelmgren Жыл бұрын

@@francootaola9172 Oh, super exciting! shm could actually become a good mesher then!