GridCAD

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Hans-Juergen Schneider

Email: info@beaver-discovery.de

Web Site:

Availability: Commercial Code, Stand-alone Mesh/Grid Generator

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: unknown

Pricing: http://www.beaver-discovery.de/prices.html

Platform: UNIX (SGI Irix 6.2 or higher)

Input:

IGES, VDAFS, TECPLOT, Spezial GRID-FORMAT, in future NETCDF

Engineering Discipline: CFD

CSM, CEM, chemstry, etc

Elements: Triangle, Quadrilateral

Surface Meshing: Yes

Tri/Tet Method: Delaunay

Delauny, Conversation from other elements (quads, structured grids)

Quad/Hex Method: Structured Grid Generation

Element Sizing Method: Automatic based on feature sizes

feature size and global user element size specification

Other Features: Refinement

Refinement in future

Comments:

Aeroelastic coupling module


Nurbs based Newton-Raphson Projection technique to transform physical data (deflections) form CSM to CFD grid (unstructured or structured grids).


Two hyperbolised smoothing and extrapolation algorithms to deflected "unprojected" CFD-gridpoints from step above (unstructured or structured grids).

Calculation of nodal-forces in CSM-grid using above mentioned algorithm in inverse direction and distribution of residual-forces to defined domains (integral formulation).