ANSYS

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Local ANSYS Support Distributor

Email:

Web Site: http://www.ansys.com

Availability: Commercial Code

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: 5000

Pricing: $250-$35,000

Platform: Windows, UNIX (SGI, HP, IBM, DEC, SUN, Cray)

Input: Native, IGES, SAT

Direct conection products for Unigraphics, Pro/Engineer, CADDS, SAT, STEP

Engineering Discipline: Structural, CFD, Thermal, Electro Magnetic

Elements: Triangle, Quadrilateral, Tetrahedra, Hexahedra, Pyramid, Wedge (Prism)

Surface Meshing: Yes

Tri/Tet Method: Delaunay, Advancing Front

Tri - Advancing Front, Tet - Delaunay or Advancing Front

Quad/Hex Method: Advancing Front, Indirect, Sweeping, Mapped Meshing

Quad - Indirect method (combine triangles) or Q-Morph (Indirect advancing front method); Hex -mapped meshing, sweeping in a volume, extrusion

Element Sizing Method: Manual, Automatic based on feature sizes

Smart Sizing (Automatic feature-based element sizing), global element size or manual sizing

Other Features: Boundary Layers, Adaptivity, Refinement, Mesh_Improvement

• Clean-up/Improve tet meshes imported from other applications
• Crack-tip meshing (fan mesh around singularity with 1/4 point midnodes)
• Hard points
• Automatic pyramid transitions between hex and tet elements
• Tet mesh from boundary facets
• Custom element shape checking.
• Rotate, drag, and extrude
• P- and h-element meshing