CAD and openFOAM
 

dear all,
taking a CAD file as input, does anyone have experience of meshing this?
thank you
sincerely
Erik

Dear Erik, there is a good
 

Dear Erik,

there is a good tool in OpenFoam 1.5: snappyHexMesh
if you can export your geometry to stl (triangulated surface) the you may use it even for highly complex geometry.

Works also in parallel...

Best regards
Christian

http://openfoamwiki.net/index.
 

http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Main_Tutorials
http://openfoamwiki.net/images/c/c3/...ial_german.zip well in german and 4 catia

http://www.caelinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc:CAETutorials#Salome_.26_OpenFOAM_tuto rial:_3D_CFD_analysis_of_a_Y-shaped_pipe_.28CAELinux_2007.29 this might be right tutorials 4 u salome can mesh free of charge as UNVersal-file (a la IDEAS) and converted via http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/IdeasUnvToFoam IdeasUnvToFoam