A question from a FLUENT user!!
 

Hey guys,

I am a FLUENT user and I have a meshed 3-D geometry in STAR-CD format (.cel), do you know how can I convert it to fluent format OR a format that it can be accepted by designing packages such as GAMBIT?

I would appreciate your help, Spyros

Re: A question from a FLUENT user!!
 

I use the NASTRAN format for such things. It tends to be universally supported. It is on the StarCD side. I do not know about GAMBIT.

Re: A question from a FLUENT user!!
 

export using TGRID command. I hope this will work fine. do direction write first. Check for Tgrid command.

Mahesh

Re: A question from a FLUENT user!!
 

You cannot export TGRID format. Its read only. Use something in common like nastran.

Re: A question from a FLUENT user!!
 

Is it the only file you have?
If so I do not think there is a way for you unless you have prostar or proam pre/post processor, or another file which contains information about vertices coordinates (.vrt).

Re: A question from a FLUENT user!!
 

You can try to save a .ccm file, then open it into star-ccm+, then export it from star-ccm+

Re: A question from a FLUENT user!!
 

Yes I have .bnd (information for triangles) and .vrt files too, do you know what to do Vladimir? Anyway, thank you all guys for your responses Spyros

Re: A question from a FLUENT user!!
 

Hi Spyros,

I am not too familiar with fluent (gambit) importing capabilities but the thing I know is that the former one accepts nastran, patran, and/or cgns files. These can be exported from prostar and read into fluent. The thing is, though, the boundary conditions has to be indicated by shell cells (a special cell type for each boundary region) for the export. Otherwise there would not be any boundary conditions imported into fluent.

Hope it helps.