solidworks flow simulation tutorial 2015

That means that a single cell that would normally take about 10 kB of RAM to store would now produce about 16GB of RAM needed if all cells created by refinements were continually refined up to the max as well. You can imagine how many cells would be created if every cell was refined eight times.

Level 7 and Level 8: Uncolored because they are too small to make out.

If all the cells combine to make one starting cell, then the following is a table to put the different refinement levels in the image in perspective: The image below shows multiple refinement levels. Each cube splitting into 8 equal cubes represents one level.

The refinement level is the maximum amount of times a cube that represents a cell can be split.

This post will be a discussion of those settings.īefore we discuss the actual settings, let’s talk about what all the level settings are since we see it multiple times in Small solid features refinement level, Curvature refinement level, and Tolerance refinement level. The software starts with the basic mesh, then refines area with certain geometrical features based on the different settings in the software. The initial mesh of a Flow Simulation is the first mesh used for performing actual calculations. Now we’re going to take a closer look at an initial mesh. We’re in Part 3 of our SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation series! So far we’ve covered the basics and the stages and we took a closer look at a basic mesh.

Solidworks flow simulation tutorial 2015