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Gridgen is a commercial mesh generator developed, distributed, and supported by Pointwise, Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Development of Gridgen began in 1984 and commercialization began in 1994.


Contents

Supported Mesh Types

  1. Structured (mapped quad and hex)
  2. Unstructured (Delaunay tri and tet)
  3. Hybrid (prism-tet, hex-pyramid-tet, etc.)

Geometry Modeling

Geometry import formats include the following.

  1. IGES
  2. STEP
  3. Pro/E
  4. CATIA V4 and V5
  5. UG
  6. STL

Geometry export includes the following formats.

  1. IGES
  2. Gridgen Native

Geometry that can be created in Gridgen includes the following entity types.

  1. solid model
  2. quilt
  3. trimmed surface
  4. Coon's patch
  5. polyconic surface
  6. surface of revolution
  7. sweep surface
  8. ruled surface
  9. circle
  10. conic
  11. curve (Catmull-Rom and Akima)
  12. line
  13. point
  14. note

CFD Solver Interfaces

Gridgen can export meshes and boundary conditions in the following native formats.

  1. ADPAC
  2. CFDSHIP-IOWA
  3. CFD++
  4. CFX-4 and CFX-5
  5. CGNS
  6. CNSFV
  7. COBALT
  8. COMO
  9. CRUNCH
  10. DTNS
  11. EXODUS II
  12. FALCON
  13. FANS
  14. FDNS/UNIC
  15. FLUENT V4 and FLUENT
  16. GASP
  17. GUST
  18. INCA V2 and V3
  19. NCC
  20. NPARC
  21. NSAERO
  22. OVERFLOW
  23. PHOENICS
  24. SCRYU and SCRYU/Tetra
  25. Splitflow
  26. STAR-CCM+
  27. STAR-CD
  28. TACOMA
  29. TASCflow
  30. TEAM
  31. TETREX
  32. VSAERO and VSAEROhybrid
  33. WIND and WIND-US

Grid files (without boundary conditions) may also be written in the following formats.

  1. PLOT3D
  2. PATRAN
  3. NASTRAN
  4. UCD
  5. VRML 1.0
  6. STL
  7. XPATCH
  8. IGES

Hardware Support

Gridgen runs on the following platforms.

  1. Windows on Intel and AMD
  2. Linux on Intel and AMD)
  3. Mac
  4. HP/Compaq/DEC Tru64 Unix
  5. HP-UX 11.11 on PA-RISC
  6. HP-UX 11.23 on Itanium
  7. IBM AIX
  8. SGI IRIX
  9. Sun Solaris

Scripting

Gridgen has a Tcl-based scripting language called GridgenGlyph that can automate CFD meshing.

External links

Pointwise's web site

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