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Caedium not working?!?

Submitted by quantumracing on January 12, 2014 - 10:20

For my F1 in Schools team, I am trying to use Caedium to test the aerodynamics of the car. The problem is that I get blotches of different colours on parts of the object when I am trying to create a mesh for the simulation. Has anyone else had this problem or know how to fix it?

I used AutoDesk Inventor to design the car, before converting to a step file and exporting to Caedium.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Likely geometry and/or meshing problems

Submitted by symscape on January 13, 2014 - 08:05.

Most likely you have geometry and/or meshing problems.

I'll assume that you've performed (not just reviewed) the tutorial "Flow Over a CO2 Dragster" to familiarize yourself with Caedium.

Review "12 CFD Tips for a Productive New Year", especially:

  • "Sequence your CFD preparation according to geometry, surface mesh, volume mesh, physics assignment, and post processing. Each step relies on the previous step, so if you skip directly to the volume mesh only to find you need to modify your surface mesh or geometry you will waste valuable time."
  • "Create a residual monitor and a variable monitor (e.g., lift, drag, average pressure) to help determine whether your steady-state simulation has converged, indicated by at least a drop of 3 orders of magnitude in all residuals."
  • "For external CFD simulations you often need to construct a volume around your object, which means you need to subtract your object from a larger volume representing the outer boundary. This is analogous to the mold you would create to manufacture a casting of your object."

For a detailed Forum discussion on F1 in Schools see "F1 in Schools Problems (Caedium Pro. Issues)".

For diagnostic help see "How do I fix mesh and solver failures?".

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