6.3.16 Reading Surface Mesh Files

Surface meshes are used as background meshes for geometry-based adaption. Perform the following steps to read the surface mesh file into ANSYS FLUENT:

1.   Open the Geometry Based Adaption dialog box.

Adapt $\rightarrow$ Geometry...

2.   Enable the Reconstruct Geometry option.

3.   Click the Surface Meshes... button to open the Surface Meshes dialog box (Figure  6.3.2).

4.   In the Surfaces Meshes dialog box, click Read... and select the surface mesh file using the Select File dialog box (see Section  2.1.6).

Note that you can also display and delete the surfaces using this dialog box.

Figure 6.3.2: The Surface Meshes Dialog Box