Alistair Duff, for technical assistance Mr. Andrew Crockett, for strain gauge assistance

8.2 GAMBIT: MESHING & EXPORTING

Upon completion of this meshing process, the mesh was then checked using the ‘mesh > check’ function which checked all the applied face meshes for any flaws. The check highlighted that there were several skewed elements, which meant that the mesh applied was not an accurate representation of its host face.

Using the list of skewed elements obtained from the check, further face merging was applied to these faces. Once completed, the mesh was again applied and a new check performed. This process of meshing, checking and face merging was repeated until the mesh was successfully applied to all the selected faces and no skewed elements were present.

The six faces of the domain boundary were then meshed using a tri-pave mesh with an interval size of 40. This meshing process was successful on the first attempt, and the mesh around the area at which the wing mirror was placed was noticeably denser. This dense mesh concentration would ensure that when modelling the flow in CFD a greater degree of accuracy and detail could be found at the wing mirror and surrounding region. The volume was then meshed with a tetrahedral scheme with an interval size of 80. This mesh application was also immediately successful and therefore the meshing of the domain was complete (Figure 12).