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Use these operations to zoom in and interrogate our mesh.

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Note to Cornell students enrolled in MAE 4272, Fall 2018: Currently the computers in the Upson lab (room 225) are having a problem with FLUENT which impacts the ability to zoom and pan. FLUENT crashes if you click in the graphics window. Instead of following the suggestions above, zoom in/out by scrolling with the Middle Mouse Button. Currently there is no workaround for panning, so instead zoom in on the desired area or click the Zoom to Fit button to view the entire model. This only impacts the Setup stage.


You should have all the surfaces shown in the above snapshot.  Clicking on a surface name in the Mesh Display menu will toggle between select and unselect. Clicking Display will show all the currently selected surface entities in the graphics pane. Unselect all surfaces and then select each one in turn to see which part of the domain or boundary the particular surface entity corresponds to (you will need to zoom in/out and translate the model as you do this). For instance, the surface labeled heated_section should correspond to the part of the wall where heating occurs.

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