Advanced Meshing

Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Schedule: Monthly

Who Should Attend

It is recommended that users who wish to generate meshes using trimmed cell technology, and who have limited or no experience with it, should attend this course. A working knowledge and some experiance of the STAR-CD CFD package is beneficial.

Course Aims

The course is aimed at giving users new to pro-STAR meshing an understanding of the tools and processes that can be used to generate a pro-STAR meshing mesh. It provides the User with hands-on experience of using these tools and processes via the use of worked examples. Each example has been designed to illustrate how to use additional functionality to gain better control over the mesh generation process and the quality of the final mesh. The course also offers the User the opportunity to discuss the application of this mesh generator to their geometry with an experienced Engineer.

Course Structure

The course structure is designed to take the User through the tools and processes associated with meshing a domain using pro-STAR meshing by discussion, illustration and worked examples.

Course Content

The content of the course, based on the above aims and structure, is as follows;

1) Introduction : This section introduces the trimmed cell technology, basic stages involved in generating a pro-STAR meshing mesh and the types of cell that can be handled by this mesh generator.

2) The pro-STAR meshing Methodology : This section gives an overview of the mesh generation options, introduces process oriented pro-STAR meshing GUI panels and then illustrates some of the processes involved in generating a pro-STAR meshing mesh.

3) pro-STAR meshing Operation : This section contains an overview of some basic pro-STAR meshing operations that are needed to successfully use this meshing tool. These operations include starting pro-STAR meshing, initialising and monitoring the batch processes, and using the mesh database system.

4) Geometry Import and Surface Preparation : This section demonstrates how to import, check and repair CAD surfaces in order to prepare them for the mesh generation process.

5) Subsurface Generation : This section details how a subsurface with a fixed or variable thickness can be created from the surface mesh.

6) Volume Mesh Generation : This section deals with the methods that should be used to successfully generate trimmed cell, tetrahedral, or hybridvolume meshes. Advanced options such as mesh refinement and the use of custom meshes are also discussed.

7) Extrusion Layer Generation and Assembly : This section describes the generation of the extrusion layers and their integration with the volume mesh.