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Meshing did not take long. In fact, it was remarkably faster than our previous attempts, which was a very good indication that our model quality was sound. The surface mesh finished in >10 minutes, and after an “Improve Surface Mesh” task, had a quality value of 0.7. The volume mesh finished in <15 minutes, and after an “Improve Volume Mesh” task, had a quality value of 0.14[something something something].

Solver

The greatest issue with running the Fluent solver on a personal laptop or computer is that it gobbles up any available RAM and pagefile space very quickly. For 8 parallel cores, it took about 70Gb of RAM and pagefiles combined.

The most common solution is to increase pagefile space to provide more memory. If that doesn’t work, decreasing the number of parallel cores used by the solver will also decrease the required memory.