Gambit

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Scott Gilmore

Email: info@fluent.com sdg@fluent.com

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

Availability: Commercial Code

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: 100s

Pricing: The base price for a Fluent CFD license starts at US$18,000, which includes preprocessors (both Gambit and TGrid), a solver (either Fluent 5, Fidap, Polyflow, or Nekton), and a postprocessor (integrated into Fluent 5 and Nekton, Fipost for Fidap, and Fluent/Post for Polyflow).

Platform: Windows, UNIX (SGI, HP, Sun, DEC, and IBM)

NT on both Intel and DEC Alpha systems

Input: Native, IGES, SAT

STL, ANSYS mesh, NASTRAN mesh, PATRAN neutral file, I-DEAS universal file all bundled at no extra cost. STEP and direct CAD translators available.

Engineering Discipline: CFD

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

Surface Meshing: Yes

Tri/Tet Method: Delaunay, Advancing Front

Delaunay for tets. Advancing front for triangles on arbitrary, curved surfaces. We can also do Delaunay for triangles in 2D.

Quad/Hex Method: Advancing Front, Sweeping, Mapped Meshing, Geometry Decomposition

Advancing Front, Mapped Meshing, Block Structured, Sweeping, Automatic Geometry Decomposition, and Feature Recognition (by Octree-based Cartesian subdivision).

Element Sizing Method: Manual

global user element size, per volume, per face, per edge with control over grading

Other Features: Boundary Layers, Refinement, Mesh_Improvement

Comments:

Gambit is a new product with a few hundred users at the present time. It is replacing a product (GeoMesh) which has 2000 users.


For sales information, contact the local office for your region. A full listing can be found at http://www.fluent.com.



For marketing and partnership relationships, contact Scott Gilmore at Fluent Inc. in Lebanon, NH, USA. Phone: 603-643-2600.

see also listing for Tgrid