I'm trying to graph a convergence plot on a few high stress spots of my model but even with a large mesh size, it appears to be converged. There isn't much difference between a large and very fine mesh size. I'm thinking this is because I have curvature based meshing checked and therefore there are more nodes in that area. Does that seem right?
Is there a different way convergence tests are conducted when curvature based meshing is used?
Thanks,
Jeremy
You should be plotting local element size (where you're reporting the stress of interest) vs. stress, not global element size. Convergence tests don't care about what meshing algoritm you're using, you just need to be sure you're looking at the right data. It may be that the local mesh size is not changing much even though the global mesh size is.