About Surface Selections

Surfaces or sets of surfaces can form a portion of the boundary faces of the fluid domain.

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Defining a Fluid Domain

When you include surfaces as part of the definition of your fluid domain, you can also use them as the supports for features you create in the fluid scenario. Defining features in this way offers a few advantages:

  • The mesh is not rendered out of date as you create and remove boundary conditions. You can specify the surfaces that interest you, and you only have to generate the mesh once.
  • You can define the surface selections of the fluid domain with descriptive names that help you identify and select them more easily during scenario creation.
  • When you define multiple surfaces as part of the fluid domain definition, these surfaces are collected together as a named object. You can then reuse this group of surfaces during scenario creation, rather than selecting every surface individually.