Making use of snappyHexMesh for the mesh generation polarizes, some love it and some hate it. I personally switch between love and hate, depending on the efforts that need to be taken, to get a proper mesh. The major drawback of snappyHexMesh is that it does not respect sharp edges, but creates these jagged edges [...]
Tags: OpenFOAM, snappyHexMesh
The first snappyHexMesh tutorial is more or less a little extended listing of the information gained from the OpenFOAM User’s Guide. This tutorial gives a brief view on how to setup the background mesh and how refinement regions should be configured. As an example, a container vessel is meshed within this tutorial. No prismatic boundary [...]
Tags: CFD, OpenFOAM, snappyHexMesh
Update 26.12.2012: Download the geometry file Update 08.07.2010: Have a look to the second part of the snappyHexMesh tutorial! In order to use the automatic meshing tool snappyHexMesh, you have to create a raw background mesh. This can easily be achieved by using blockMesh of OpenFOAM. For this tutorial, I assume that you wish to [...]
Tags: CFD, OpenFOAM, snappyHexMesh