Gridgen

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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 1 Supported Mesh Types 2 Geometry Modeling 3 CFD Solver Interfaces 4 Hardware Support 5 Scripting 6 External links

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
7. PLOT3D
8. Points

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. SGI IRIX
8. Sun Solaris

Scripting

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

External links

Pointwise's web site