Boundary layer

Menu: Mesh->Boundary layer

A boundary layer mesh is one mesh attached to the boundary, and which present a certain distribution of nodes separated from the boundray following a certain stretching function. The streching function and the grow factor of the boundary layer meshes of a model is set in Preferences->Meshing .

User can define two main properties to the boundary layer meshes of the model: First layer height and Number of layers. When selecting the entities which will have boundary layer mesh a window shows a schematic picture, where user can see the distribution of heights of each layer, and the total height of the boundary layer mesh when the assigned properties are set.

Boundary layer mesh window