[djfanf]

Hello everyone,

We bought Fluent and I noticed that there is also the possibility to mesh with Fluent, has this tool any advantage over the standard ANSYS Meshing tool.
I wonder if it is possible to reach better mesh than with ANSYS Meshing. Anyone has experience with Fluent Mesh, is it difficult to master?

Thanks

[FJSJ]

Hi djfanf,

Good question. To be honest I haven't used quite a lot Fluent Meshing. However, the meshes I have done using it has been of good quality.

From my personal point of view, I would highlight a couple of things:

- Give you more control over your cfd mesh in terms of elements and nodes. You have quite tools to diagnostic and improve surface meshes.

- The second point, very interesting (I think), is that from ANSYS 16.0 there is a beta version of Native Poly volume mesh generation method. That means you don't need to create a tetra mesh in Ansys Meshing or Fluent Meshing and then convert it to polyhedra in Fluent. So, you can save time.

Those would be a couple of points that come to mind now

[djfanf]

Thank you for your answer FJSJ,

maybe can someone tell me how hard it is to master FLUENT Meshing in comparision to ANSYS Meshing?
I am wondering if it is worth to invest time to learn FLUENT Meshing because generally I am not really happy with the mesh quality I get with ANSYS Meshing.

[Far]

I would not recommend you the fluent meshing. I would like to suggest you the ICEM CFD...

[FJSJ]

I agree with Far. I would go for ICEM instead of Fluent Meshing

[djfanf]

Thanks for your answer.
Well I don't think that my company will spend some money for a new meshing software, i will go on meshing with ANSYS Meshing!

[ancsa]

Hello,
I've just started to use Fluent Meshing. I realized that it is actually the new version of TGrid, but I have never used that before. So far I quite like it as it is scriptable and you have a broader control than with Ansys Meshing. But I have problems with understanding error messages.
Did you finally give it a try?

[Far]

Hello,
I've just started to use Fluent Meshing. I realized that it is actually the new version of TGrid, but I have never used that before. So far I quite like it as it is scriptable and you have a broader control than with Ansys Meshing. But I have problems with understanding error messages.

Ansys meshing is for newbie or the people who want to get very quick mesh for some preliminary results.

TGrid / ANSYS meshing : It is best for automobile.

ICEM CFD : Best for every thing

[djfanf]

Hello,

no, I didn't give a try and won't probably, I just hope that I will convince my company to buy ICEM CFD in a near future

[wadebogs]

Fluent Meshing is actually developing very quickly and is a very sophisticated peice of software. This example mesh on Youtube was done a few years ago now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLjJh41iwhM

and the workflows and interface have been improved massively since then...

[wadebogs]

It's getting better especially linked to Spaceclaim ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARMwQwVMQHo

[TechAnalyst2012]

Try out Hypermesh or ICEM