Grid Generation and Grid Independence
Regardless of the type of grid (structured or unstructured, quadrilateral or triangular, etc.), it is the
quality of the
grid that is most critical for reliable CFD solutions. In particular, you must
always be careful that individual cells are not highly skewed, as this can
lead to convergence difficulties and inaccuracies in the numerical solution
Abrupt changes in cell size can lead to numerical or convergence difficulties in the CFD code. Also, cells with a very large aspect ratio can sometimes cause problems.
While you can often minimize the cell count by using a structured grid instead of an unstructured grid, a structured grid is not always the best choice, depending on the shape of the computational domain.
You must always be cognizant of grid quality.
A high-quality unstructured grid is better than a poor-quality structured grid
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