Can any one tell me what's the best way to draw and mesh a 30 degree sector of a cylinder in gambit, that has the best meshing quality for CFD simulations?
I recommend using the ANSYS Workbench and use the ICEM-CFD or the meshing of the same ANSYS Fluent package. It's so good and efficient and can modify easily.
I recommend using the ANSYS Workbench and use the ICEM-CFD or the meshing of the same ANSYS Fluent package. It's so good and efficient and can modify easily.
If you are using GAMBIT, divide that cylinder as per your requirement of mesh generation, then it will be easy to map the mesh the mesh over the edges....
If one of the edges of the cone is a wall, then you will also need to capture the boundary layer. I don't think that Gambit is the right mesher for this. But if you have access to Pointwise, it will allow you to generate hex-dominant hybrid mesh, and you can also generate a boundary layer mesh using t-rex feature. You can, very easily, generate very high quality meshes for CFD simulations using the hybrid meshing option (I think that this feature is only available in Pointwise R18.0 and above). Nonetheless, I recommend you to use Pointwise if you need to capture boundary layer or for any complex mesh generation problems.
You can use the following paper which has a useful technique to draw and make a mesh for the cylindrical combustion chamber:
Al-Abbas, AH & Naser, J. 2011 “CFD Modelling of Air-Fired and Oxy-Fuel Combustion in a 100 kW Unit Firing Propane”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering.