{"id":28946,"date":"2016-07-25T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/?p=28946"},"modified":"2022-03-24T22:50:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:50:54","slug":"fluid-volume-extraction-for-cfd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/2016\/07\/25\/fluid-volume-extraction-for-cfd\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluid Volume Extraction for CFD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have used or are using CFD tools like ANSYS Fluent or ANSYS CFX, then you already know how much of a pain extracting the fluid volume can be from a CAD model. &nbsp;Whether the extraction fails because of geometry issues, or if you&#8217;ve forgotten to create capping surfaces for all your openings it can be quite frustrating when you get the &#8220;non-manifold body&#8221; error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve done it the same way for a long time &#8211; create some super solid and do a Boolean subtract or try to close everything off and try to use a cavity function to fill in the model. \u00a0Both can have headache-inducing issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a PDF that shows how ANSYS SpaceClaim uses a different approach which can make the fluid volume extraction much easier for engineers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\"  class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Application_Note_FluidVolumeExtract.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:1035px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of Application_Note_FluidVolumeExtract..\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-28a5f604-24c9-4b30-89f5-67acdccc07be\" href=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Application_Note_FluidVolumeExtract.pdf\">Application_Note_FluidVolumeExtract<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Application_Note_FluidVolumeExtract.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-28a5f604-24c9-4b30-89f5-67acdccc07be\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6lCJX8GZhJY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a> <\/strong>for a video demo of this as well<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ANote_VolumeExtractionPic.jpg\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ANote_VolumeExtractionPic.webp \"  type=\"image\/webp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ANote_VolumeExtractionPic.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-7138 sp-no-webp\" alt=\"ANote_VolumeExtractionPic\" decoding=\"async\"  > <\/picture><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have used or are using CFD tools like ANSYS Fluent or ANSYS CFX, then you already know how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":28947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2323],"tags":[478,505,538,536,539],"post-podcast":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28946"},{"taxonomy":"post-podcast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-podcast?post=28946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}