Tgrid

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: 500+

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, also supported on numerous other systems; contact Fluent for a full listing.

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, Tetrahedra

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.

Element Sizing Method: Manual

TGrid starts from a surface mesh

Other Features: Boundary Layers, Refinement

Comments:

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 Gambit