Hi,

When i check my 3D grid in Fluent it displays the following message

WARNING: non-positive volumes exist. WARNING: Grid check failed.

what should i do to remove these.

Many Thanks.

Hey Muhammad,

If you go into Gambit and examine the mesh you should find where the negative volumes exist. They will be the only ones at skewness of 1!

I'm not sure why these things happen but in Gambit sometimes if you do things in a certain order, it will crash or create negative volumes,(etc,etc,etc,etc) it really can be a nightmare.

You should save your work all the time and remesh the bad part again. I HAVE FOUND THAT SPLITTING THE BAD PART INTO SMALLER GOEMETRIES HELPS.

I expect you were using cooper or tgrid scheme or something like that.

Sorry there's not much else to say but I've experienced this lots of times and certainly the first thing I would do is remesh it in a different manner, then divide the geometry up if that doesn't work.

hi you should divide your geometry and mesh theses little part and define intersection of parts as a interface in boundary condition panel in gambit software if minnimizing spacing no helpful. best regards.

check cells for their right handedness. all the cells should be right handed. If not you can make them right handed in gridgen or gambit, whichever mesh generator u r using.

or use repair left handed faces TUI command in Fluent. But normally negative cells or inverted elements will require a local remesh rather than simple fix.

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hi
It is because u have certain small regions in mesh which are not smooth, to avoid these problems after meshing ( before importing to fluent) run smooth grid option, then you will be able to see where the grid is negative. depending on it you have to adjust the edges and give proper associations ( edge, face) until the whole grid is positive. then import it in fluent, u will not find this particular problem then.