The Fluent Meshing option will allow you to create a tetrahedral volume mesh from the surface mesh, on a part-by-part basis, using Ansys Fluent in batch mode. Optional prism layers that use many of the parameters as described in Prism Meshing Parameters may be created. The option of pre inflation or post inflation prism creation, as well as optional hexahedral elements in the core, is done at the time the volume mesh is computed. See Tetra/Mixed Mesh Type.
In addition, the following volume fill options may be specified:
- Expansion Factor
The ratio at which to grow the tetra elements from the final inflation layer. The default is 1.2. Reducing this value leads to an increase in the number of tetra elements generated.
- Flood fill after completion
If this option is enabled, the created mesh will be assigned to different volume parts based on flood filling from material points. This option only pertains to models with multiple material points.
- Verbose output
When enabled, this option writes more messages to help in debugging any potential problem. In general you should not need to have this option enabled, but if the mesher has a problem, it may help to enable this for debugging.