Sharc Ltd announced today the release of new Wrapping software which has been included in the latest version of Harpoon.

Harpoon meshes dirty CAD geometry with ease, however, there are occasions when a Wrapper combined with the power of Harpoon would make meshing even easier. In particular, large holes in the CAD can cause problems when creating a mesh. The Harpoon Wrapper alleviates these problems and just like Harpoon, is extremely quick

Underhood Thermal Management is an application where these problems are evident as the geometry is extremely complex, containing many holes, intersecting and overlapping surfaces and in some cases, actual physical parts may be missing.

Harpoon’s new Wrapper feature envelopes the geometry in a single closed surface which can then be used as a base to generate the final surface and volume mesh. This function has advantages such as ensuring a watertight ‘hole free’ surface mesh, removing intersecting/overlapping surfaces and allowing automatic de-featuring of complex parts not required for the analysis.

This new addition to Harpoon's ever growing feature-set builds on the philosophy of fast, automatic meshing by allowing integration of the wrapping feature along with full grid generation into a scripted process which can provide massive time savings for optimization studies.

More comprehensive information can be found through the Sharc website

This new wrapper technology is available free of charge to existing Harpoon users. Trial versions are also available for interested parties through www.sharc.co.uk

To get a copy of the world’s fastest meshing software, Harpoon V2.2, contact your local Harpoon Distributors.

If you would like to discuss this or any other feature of Harpoon why not visit us at the Simulation Conference UK which will be held on the 17th of October in Swindon.

About Sharc

Founded in 1997, Manchester based Sharc is a developer of pre-processor software for finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Its flagship Harpoon mesher produces high quality body-fitted hex meshes. The automatic generation of hex dominant volume meshes and/or quad dominant surface meshes bypasses the need for time consuming surface mesh generation and grid density specification.

Further information available from:

Paul Gilfrin

Sharc Ltd

Tel: 0161 877 5071

Email paul@sharc.co.uk