[bruxellois]

Dear all,

I want to extrude my mesh (image in attach), recently converted with fluentMeshToFoam, into sphere. It don't know how to do it and there is no documentation to explain it.

Any idea please?

{
    version     2.0;
    format      ascii;
    class       polyBoundaryMesh;
    location    "3e-07/polyMesh";
    object      boundary;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //


(
      Pressure_inlet
    {
        type            patch;
        nFaces          30;
        startFace       64438;
    }
 
    Tube
    {
        type            wall;
        nFaces          140;
        startFace       64538;
    }
   
    Pressure_outlet
    {
        type            patch;
        nFaces          176;
        startFace       64678;
    }
   
    frontAndBackPlanes
    {
        type            empty;
        nFaces          32344;
        startFace       64854;
    }
   
)

// ************************************************************************* //

Best regards.

[louisgag]

I've never done anything like that but you might want to look into setting a wall to something that "merges" the end to the begging thus making it into a sphere.. although only good for symmetric flows...

sorry but thats not my specialty I'm only answering because you asked me to...

regards,


-Louis

[bruxellois]

OK, thanks a lot.

Regards.

[paka]

If I were you I would go back directly to the meshing tool (whatever you use, i.e. Gambit?) and do it over there. I'm not really sure which portion you want to extrude, I assume the lower flat boundary, is it right?

I never used any external extruding tool, whenever I had such need I would do it directly into mesher.

[bruxellois]

thanks for your reponse,

I want to extrude my mesh to a sphere, i hope doing this under FOAM if it's possible.

[wikstrom]

Would mirrorMesh suffice?
/N

[wikstrom]

Oh, it was a 2D mesh. I've got no example on the shelf, but I suppose the wedge extrudeModel does what you want. Use one of the sides for sourcePatch and set the wedgeCoeffs. Set the mergeFaces to true.

Just tried it. Works fine.

[shackman287]

Make a 3D wedge in blockMesh. Then you can use extrudeMesh with the wedge model choosen. To rotated the wedge 355 degr (5 degrees is already created from blockMesh) and merge the front and back patches so that they meet together once wrapped around. This will eliminate the two patches and leave you with your sphere

[tomloh]

Hi Charlie,

I am trying to generate a cylinder from my axisymmetric mesh and I was thinking of using extrudeMesh. I was wondering if you could shed some light on what I need to include in my case setup, ie: extrudeMeshDict and wedge coefficients. I'm finding it difficult to gather information on this...

Kind Regards,
Tom