Building the Mesh

This section describes the step-by-step procedure for preparing the mesh for the piston solid domain. The General Mesher is used for creating the mesh.

Piston Solid Mesh

Select General Mesher in the Mesh Panel.
Select all the CAD Surfaces in the Geometric Entities Panel and click Add Surfaces icon for CAD Surfaces in the Properties Panel.
Enter Maximum Cell Size as 0.01, Minimum Cell Size as 0.0007 and Cell Size on Surfaces as 0.01 in the Properties Panel.
Click Create Mesh. A new mesh piston is created under Built Meshes in the Geometric Entities Panel.
The meshed volume piston is generated under Volumes.

Figure 7.240 - Piston solid mesh settings

The mesh created for the solid domain is shown below:

Figure 7.241 - Mesh - Full view

Figure 7.242 - Cross-sectional view