From the previous submission, I have already identified my geometry, the boundary

conditions and the mesh types. I performed 5 different types of mesh on the geometry and
listed each one of them down, pointing out the different mesh types and sizing used. I have
stated my chosen mesh type which was type 5 because it was the most refined mesh with the
highest average mesh value which was my target. Let us take a closer look at the different
mesh types and element and their effects on the solution. Below are 3 tables construct with all
the important information of all the 5 types of meshes (tables based on information from
TABLE 5: MESH, TABLE 6: MESH CONTROL and TABLE 12: SOLUTION RESULTS
from ANSYS).
TABLE 1
Mesh

TYPE 5

TYPE 4

Physics
Preference

CFD

CFD

Solver
Preference

Polyflow

Polyflow

Relevance

100

-100

TYPE 3
Defaults
Mechanical

TYPE 2

TYPE 1

Mechanical

Mechanical

-100

100

100

Sizing
Use
Advanced
Size
Function

On: Proximity
and Curvature

On: Proximity
and Curvature

On: Proximity
and Curvature

On: Curvature

On: Curvature

Relevance
Center

Medium

Medium

Coarse

Fine

Fine

Initial Size
Seed
Smoothing
Transition
Span Angle
Center
Nodes
Elements

Active Assembly
Medium
Slow

Medium
Slow

Medium
Fast

High
Fast

High
Fast

Fine

Fine

Coarse

Fine

Fine

1119472
5887398

Mesh Metric
Min
Max
Average
Standard
Deviation

0.1578803412
58929
0.9999516561
79196
0.8395975695
86246
9.5517466765
0444E-02

Statistics
23328
87997
882382
90250
47377
224466
Element Quality
0.154759028988 0.103702279361 6.462691140645
47
82
79E-03
0.999416948547 0.999841744277 0.999999898398
518
468
318
0.796379245311 0.788389235766 0.786484985893
908
732
716
0.117697656381 0.124347673153 0.241390591432
133
891
466

222146
65266
4.332772053224
13E-04
0.999979236809
188
0.556780187455
341
0.268145062212
91

From table 1 we can see that type 5 has the highest number of nodes at
1119472 and highest number of elements at 5887398. Having a higher number
of nodes and element generally means that there will be a higher precision in the
computed data. This is because for a surface area there will be higher
discretisation of mesh cells which allows a better distribution of the stress. We
will be able to probe and view the effects of stress and the deformation at more
approximate value. This is important especially in zones of interest where the
stress formation is the largest

TABLE 2
Mesh Control

TYPE 5
Object Name Face Sizing
State

Fully
Defined

Scoping
Method
Geometry 40 Faces
Suppressed
No
Method
Element
Midside
Nodes
Free Face
Mesh Type
Type
Element Size
50. mm
Behavior
Soft
Curvature
Normal
Default
Angle
Growth Rate
Default
Local Min
Default
Size (2.1983 mm)
Bias Type
-

TYPE 2
Body Sizing

Edge Sizing

Fully Defined Fully Defined

1 Body
No
-

243 Edges
No
-

TYPE 1
Hex Dominant Hex Dominant
Method
Method
Fully Defined

Geometry
Geometry
Selection
Selection
1 Body
1 Body
No
No
Hex Dominant Hex Dominant
Use Global
Setting

Use Global
Setting

Quad/Tri

Quad/Tri

Element Size
50. mm
Hard
-

50. mm
-

No Bias

*Type 3 and type 4 have no mesh control

Fully Defined

Object
Total
Name Deformation
Minimum

0. mm

Maximum

4.3395e-003
mm

Directional
Maximum Shear
Maximum Shear Stress
Deformation
Elastic Strain
MESH TYPE 5
-5.6252e-005
1.3865e-006 MPa
1.8024e-011 mm/mm
mm
2.687e-003 mm

5.715e-002 MPa

7.4295e-007 mm/mm

MESH TYPE 4
Minimum

0. m

-3.7479e-008 m

2.3501 Pa

3.0551e-011 m/m

Maximum 3.6979e-006 m 2.2961e-006 m

21495 Pa

2.7943e-007 m/m

MESH TYPE 3
Minimum

0. m

Maximum 4.2744e-006 m

Minimum

0. mm

Maximum

4.4369e-003
mm

-6.0175e-008 m

2.904 Pa

3.7752e-011 m/m

2.648e-006 m

31493 Pa

4.0941e-007 m/m

MESH TYPE 2
-5.8611e-005
4.9953e-007 MPa
mm
2.7455e-003 mm

0.12547 MPa

6.4939e-012 mm/mm
1.6311e-006 mm/mm

MESH TYPE 1
Minimum

0. m

-5.8114e-008 m

0.63336 Pa

8.2337e-012 m/m

63738 Pa

8.2859e-007 m/m

Maximum 4.3926e-006 m 2.7174e-006 m

Maximum Shear Stress

140000
120000
100000
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

Total deformation
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

For the maximum shear stress (which is our most important element) the data is
distributed
between
about
20000Pa
to
125000Pa.
Equating
63738+112547+31493+21495+57150/5 gives us 57280. Type 5 has the closest
max shear stress value (57150) to the average that we found. The deformation
values obtained here are all quite similar and in close proximity and very small
therefore will not give much effect to our analysis. However, I have looked into it
and found that the average total deformation is 0.004228 which has about
0.0001mm difference from the deformation of the Mesh Type 5.