Applying Loads to a structured mesh symbolising a capacitor field 1

[ThomasKruk]

Hello Ansys Professionals,

I´m having a problem to define loads or simulate a real capacitor field in my Volume. The behaviour of this volume is like air and the discs of the capacitor extend into this volume. I have tried out several things, but the solver is telling me always that i have not set any constraints. Can anyone help? I want to apply the load an the areas 22,27,12,17 and 4 in the geometry.

The volume consists of 7 separate volumes in order to achieve a structured mesh for this geometry. I think here is the root of all my problems. I have already calculated this problem in a one-volume unstructured mesh and received realistic results.

Thanks for any posts to this question.

 

[Drej]

Have you checked your constraints like the solver says? How did you split up the geometry into separate volumes? Are they entirely separate, or do they share a common area (they will need to be)? If they're separate, try gluing the volumes together, or try redrawing the volume and then using the divide booleans operation > by workplane. This will give you what you need I think.


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