[mkaanflow]

Hi everyone!
I just started to learn icemcfd but I could'nt find tutorial sample files in my icemcfd file. that's why I am lookin where could I download these all of files in the icemcfd tutorial pdf.
can anyone help me to find them out?
thanks

[Gert-Jan]

They are on the ANSYS customer portal. Do you have access?

[siw]

As you are starting to learn ICEM CFD do you have to use this or are you able to switch to a more modern Ansys mesh generation application for your Fluent/CFX/Mechanical simulations? ICEM CFD is a legacy application which has little training material and gets no new features. I moved away from ICEM CFD years ago and use their latest applications now.

There is a lot of training material for Ansys Fluent Meshing (for Fluent CFD simulations) and Ansys Meshing (for CFX CFD and Mechanical FEA simulations). Note that many call Ansys Meshing by other names such as Workbench Meshing or Mechanical Meshing.

Try the Ansys Innovation Courses https://innovationspace.ansys.com/courses/fluids/ and Ansys How To channel https://www.youtube.com/@AnsysHowTo/...?query=meshing

[Gert-Jan]

I still use ICEM once in a while. Especially when the CAD is horrible and even Spaceclaim doesn't eat it.
Also it is possible that in companies people get stuck with a 10-year old perpetual license. Then ICEM could be the only option to generate a mesh.
If so, please send me a PM. I'm willing to share ancient material.

[mkaanflow]

Originally Posted by siw

As you are starting to learn ICEM CFD do you have to use this or are you able to switch to a more modern Ansys mesh generation application for your Fluent/CFX/Mechanical simulations? ICEM CFD is a legacy application which has little training material and gets no new features. I moved away from ICEM CFD years ago and use their latest applications now.

There is a lot of training material for Ansys Fluent Meshing (for Fluent CFD simulations) and Ansys Meshing (for CFX CFD and Mechanical FEA simulations). Note that many call Ansys Meshing by other names such as Workbench Meshing or Mechanical Meshing.

Try the Ansys Innovation Courses https://innovationspace.ansys.com/courses/fluids/ and Ansys How To channel https://www.youtube.com/@AnsysHowTo/...?query=meshing

Actually I am trying to learn how to mesh two different phases which I mean, there is solid body which is also has duct that fluid can flow inside of it and outer domain as atmosphere. I want to mesh both of them because there is heater inside of solid body so I need to analyize the body and outer surface of body at the same time. So, which one is better to mesh fluid domain and solid body for this analyze? CFX/ANSYS FLUENT/ICEM CFD ?

[Gert-Jan]

It does not matter. What you describe, can be solved in ANSYS-CFX and ANSYS-Fluent very well.

In ANSYS there are three meshing routes to get there:
ANSYS ICEM CFD (Stand alone or in Workbench-environment)
ANSYS Meshing (Only in Workbench-environment)
Fluent Meshing (Only in Fluent-environment)

All three packages can do this quite easily. But only if you know how! For this you need tutorials or a teacher.
As Stuart already mentioned, I would recommend ANSYS Meshing of Fluent Meshing. These are more modern packages and provide meshes of higher quality.

Only if your CAD is so bad that it doesn't work in Spaceclaim or Design Modeler, I would use ICEM CFD. And in that case, I would recommend to use CFX-solver because it is forgiven for low quality meshes from ICEM. When combining Fluent and ICEM CFD, success is not guaranteed.

[mkaanflow]

Originally Posted by Gert-Jan

It does not matter. What you describe, can be solved in ANSYS-CFX and ANSYS-Fluent very well.

In ANSYS there are three meshing routes to get there:
ANSYS ICEM CFD (Stand alone or in Workbench-environment)
ANSYS Meshing (Only in Workbench-environment)
Fluent Meshing (Only in Fluent-environment)

All three packages can do this quite easily. But only if you know how! For this you need tutorials or a teacher.
As Stuart already mentioned, I would recommend ANSYS Meshing of Fluent Meshing. These are more modern packages and provide meshes of higher quality.

Only if your CAD is so bad that it doesn't work in Spaceclaim or Design Modeler, I would use ICEM CFD. And in that case, I would recommend to use CFX-solver because it is forgiven for low quality meshes from ICEM. When combining Fluent and ICEM CFD, success is not guaranteed.

Thank you so much for your recommendations. I am not customer of ansys I use student version that's why I need fluent and icem-cfd tutorial geomerties. Can you please make zip for me all of them?

[siw]

Originally Posted by mkaanflow

Thank you so much for your recommendations. I am not customer of ansys I use student version that's why I need fluent and icem-cfd tutorial geomerties. Can you please make zip for me all of them?

As I use Fluent only (moved over from only using CFX a years ago) then I would recommend Fluent Meshing as there is a lot of training material in the links I posted, and much more when you search for them. For all geometry preparation I use Ansys SpaceClaim as I like to get my geometry tidy rather than mesh a dirty geometry (but if the CAD is really bad something cannot be fixed then I complain to the Designers to do a better job), again there is a lot of training material on YouTube etc.

Years ago when I did use ICEM CFD I never liked the GUI and only made tetra-prism meshes using a very specific procedure, which I have posted here many times but I don't have time to search to find those posts, but generally it was as follows as I cannot recall exactly the options I set as it was too long ago:

1. Use Build Topology to get everything connected
2a. Make an Octree volume mesh (don't forget the material points)
2b. Delete the volume elements
2c. Check the surface elements
2d. Smooth the surface elements
2e. Save the surface mesh file
3a. Make a Delaunay volume mesh (from the above surface mesh)
3b. Check the volume mesh
3c. Smooth the volume mesh
3d. Save the volume mesh file
4. Make/check/smooth a prism mesh (this is the most difficult part but if you can find PSYMN's presentations here then they are the holy grail)

The other Ansys meshing application that is very little heard about is SpaceClaim Interactive Meshing (SCIM), which is incorporating ICEM CFD technology into the SpaceClaim application so that CAD preparation and mesh generation can be done in SpaceClaim - but Ansys hardly talk about SCIM, and SpaceClaim is soon to be replaced by Ansys Discovery anyway. I don't know anyone who uses SCIM.

The Ansys Student Edition only has mesh size limitations, otherwise is the Ansys regular version.

[Gert-Jan]

Doesn't a student version come with numerous tutorials? That should be the whole intention of the student-version-concept, not? How else should students ever learn the software?

[siw]

The tutorials in the Ansys Student edition are the same tutorials and training material found in the regular Ansys Help (same location where the User Guides are).