Cell layer inflation and yPlus

Hi @DaleKramer,

Apologies for the delayed reply, haven’t had full access to a PC these past few days and maybe for the rest of the week as well so my replies may be a little slow.

Ideally you would consider all the different reference lengths and have different layer inflation sizes for each one of them. This is however, obviously, very tedious and you may not have the time to do that even if it gives you the most accurate result. So a good place to start would probably be taking the smallest reference length and applying that layer inflation parameter to the entire body to make your life easier. Computationally it would be quite expensive and not very optimized but it certainly would save you much time and effort. You can start with that and maybe re-adjust some parameters for the inflation layers to better fit other reference lengths in order to better optimize the mesh.

Using the y+ calculator lets pick say the first set of values in the table.

From the calculator, you can see that your first inflation layer has to be 4.999 x 10^-6 m for a y+ of 1. This post here should help with implementation of the layers.

Unfortunately, the Hex-Dominant automatic meshing algorithms do not allow sufficient control of the mesh. My recommended changes can only be implemented with the Hex-Dominant parametric option. It does seem complicated but after looking through the options for meshing you’ll find that you’ll mostly have to deal with the refinements mainly. The earlier post i stated will surely help in the most complicated area of implementing the inflation layers to the desired y+ value.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

Regards,
Barry

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