PointwiseReliable CFD MeshingKTH-2017

Metacomp Technologies

Arnold Air Force Base

Ohio Northern Univ.

HYDAC USA

CRAFT Tech

Sinclair Knight Merz

Garry Rogers Motorsport

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ACISCATIA V4CATIA V5

IGESNX

NastranPLOT3DParasolidPatran

Pro/EngineerSTEPSTL

SegmentSolidWorks

UCDUGRIDVRMLXpatch

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Quilts: Grid Regions on GeometrySurfaces imported from CAD

Quilts simplify, capture features

Surface grids follow quilts

Sharp corners, transitions preserved in mesh

Defeaturing with Quilts

3 quilts (black, gray, green)Features inside quilt (green) approximated

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Domain Algorithms and Cell Types

• Delaunay- Points recursively inserted

into domain to form triangles; Triangles combined for Triangles and Quadssetting.

• Advancing Front- Propagates layers of

equilateral triangles from boundaries into domain; Triangles combined for Triangles and Quads setting.

• Advancing Front Ortho- Right angle triangles

propagated from boundaries into domain; Triangles combined for Triangles and Quads setting.

Triangles Triangles and Quads

Delaunay

AdvancingFront

AdvancingFront Ortho

T-Rex Mixed Cell Domains

• This allows you to create the following combinations of domains:

- Triangular T-Rex cells with triangular isotropic cells (shown).

- Quad dominant T-Rex cells with triangular isotropic cells.

- Quad dominant T-Rex cells with quad dominant isotropic cells (shown).

Iso and T-Rex Triangles

Iso and T-Rex Quad Dominant

AdvancingFront Ortho

AdvancingFront

Delaunay

Anisotropic Refinement

Isotropic Refinement

Anisotropic: 6,300 cells

Isotropic: 34,000 cells

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FDNS/UNICFieldViewFrontFlow

GASPINCA V2Kestrel

NASTRANNCC

NPARCNSAERONSU3D

OpenFOAMOverflowPATRAN

PHOENICSPLOT3DSCRYU

SC/TetraShipIR

SplitflowSTAR-CCM+

STAR-CDSTLSU2

TACOMATASCflow

TEAMTecplotTETREX

UCDUGRIDVRML

USM3DVSAEROWIND

WIND-USXPATCH

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AcuSolveADPAC

ANSYS CFX

ANSYS FLUENTCFD++

CFDShip-Iowa

CFL3DCGNSCNSFVCobaltCOMO

CRUNCHDTNS

Exodus IIEdge

FALCONFANS

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