CFD Online Logo CFD Online URL
www.cfd-online.com
[Sponsors]
Home > Forums > Software User Forums > ANSYS > FLUENT

shell and tubes heat exchanger mesh

Register Blogs Community New Posts Updated Threads Search

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
Old   January 15, 2006, 09:12
Default shell and tubes heat exchanger mesh
  #1
antonio
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
Hi! We are running a 7 Million cells heat exchanger in a Windows cluster. We have not found any problem in the parallel version of Fluent, however the grid generation process was very tedious. I show the details of our meshing process: 1.-Import the Catia V5 geometry in Hypermesh as igs. 2.-Create a 2d mesh with Hypermesh. 3.-Create the air mesh file 3D with Tgrid. 4.-Create the water mesh file 3D with Tgrid. 5.-Join th two domain meshes with Tmerge. 6.-Read case in Fluent. 7.-Fuse zones. The process of fuse zones in Fluent is very tedious. We would like to create the complete mesh in just one mesh, but the max RAM of available computers is 4M. I would like receive any type of information related to: Limitation of cells number in Tgrid. Is there any mesh package that run in parallel?.Could anyone improve our meshing process?

Thanks in advance(Sorry,English is not my native language and is the first time I participe in this Forum)

  Reply With Quote

Old   January 15, 2006, 09:21
Default Re: shell and tubes heat exchanger mesh
  #2
Ahmed
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
What is your operating system, if Windows, What file system are you using, if FAT32 then as a first step you have to re-format to NTFS You see, FAT32 does not allow a file size more than 4GB But if you are using UNIX/LINUX then forget about what I said before, good luck
  Reply With Quote

Old   January 15, 2006, 11:30
Default Re: shell and tubes heat exchanger mesh
  #3
antonio
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
I made a mistake in the first message I sent, of course the max RAM of the available computer is 4 Gb. Thanks Ahmed, but the problem is not the size of the final mesh(when I join the mesh with Tmerge utility the mesh file size is less than 800mb)
  Reply With Quote

Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Heat exchanger design sakthi Main CFD Forum 6 September 3, 2022 02:22
FSI error ERROR #001100279(Shell & Tube heat exchanger) Chandrashekhar CFX 3 March 26, 2010 16:04
Pressurized heat exchanger jimmy FLUENT 0 December 5, 2006 11:06
Heat Exchanger modelling problem lmitsc FLUENT 1 October 16, 2006 07:39
3D shell and tube heat exchanger Peter Jansen FLUENT 2 June 7, 2006 08:01


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:24.