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CFD Meshing Software meshes boundary layers using fewer cells.
Run on Windows, Linux, and Mac, Pointwise v17.1 R2 interfaces with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers and generates structured, unstructured, and hybrid meshes. Included algorithm for agglomerating cells inÃ- hybrid mesh improves reduction in cell count; best reduction achieved during testing wasÃ- 377 million cell mesh reduced to ~155 million cells. Automated T-Rex hybrid mesh...
Read More »CFD Meshing Software supplies wake resolution capabilities.
Gridgen v15.17 CFD meshing software features T-Rex hybrid meshing technique that allows for resolution of wakes and other off-body flow phenomena. Also included is T-Rex (anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion) support for baffles, which lets user insert triangulated surface mesh into middle of volume in vicinity of flow feature. As post-processing step, T-Rex stacks extruded tetrahedra into prisms to...
Read More »Customize Pointwise for Your Solver Using CAE Plug-in
FORT WORTH, TX (6 April 2010) - The latest release of Pointwise's mesh generation software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing features CAE plug-in, an API for customizing the product to export mesh and boundary condition data for a CFD solver or other CAE software file format. Even though Pointwise supports a broad variety of standard, de facto standard, and proprietary file formats...
Read More »Pointwise Partners with 3Dconnexion for 3D Mouse Support
FORT WORTH, TX - The latest release of Pointwise's computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software includes support for 3Dconnexion's complete line of award-winning 3D mice, giving design engineers a more intuitive and comfortable design process that helps increase productivity. Pointwise's customers have been asking for 3D mouse support for quite some time and we're happy to be able to...
Read More »Pointwise CFD Meshing Software Compatible with Windows 7
FORT WORTH, TX - Pointwise today announced the release of its flagship computational fluid dynamics (CFD) mesh generation software for Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.'s newest operating system. Pointwise Version 16.03 is available for workstations running Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP (both 32-bit and 64-bit) in addition to other platforms. Windows represents the most popular platform among...
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CFD Meshing Software addresses CAD interoperability issues.
Confronting CAD geometry data problems, Pointwise v16.03 incorporates Solid Meshing features that can automatically create watertight geometry models without gaps and overlaps. Solid models are watertight collections of surfaces, while quilts are subregions of geometry that capture engineering intent, simplify topology, and are meshed as single unit. Other tools include those for surface...
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Software offers mesh quality monitoring tools.
With Pointwise v16.02 for CFD, users can apply techniques such as drag-and-drop cutting planes and probing individual mesh cells to gain detailed insight into suitability of mesh according to 25 metric functions. Program includes capability for automated and proactive mesh quality monitoring, providing user with top-down, global view of mesh quality. Additional features include 20 native CAE...
Read More »CFD Software provides suite of quality monitoring tools.
Pointwise v16.02 mesh generation software for CFD features suite of tools for mesh quality interrogation and monitoring, including capability for automated/proactive monitoring. User can apply drag-and-drop cutting planes and also probe individual mesh cells to analyze mesh according to 25 metric functions. It also features 20 native CAE solver interfaces; geometry modeling capabilities such as...
Read More »Pointwise Partners with DreeseCode Software
14 January 2008 - Pointwise is announcing a new collaboration with DreeseCode Software, makers of the DesignFOIL software for airfoil and wing design and preliminary analysis. The collaboration includes DreeseCode's addition of Gridgen export to DesignFOIL and Pointwise's addition of a script for automatic CFD grid generation to their Glyph Script Exchange. We are thrilled to be working with a...
Read More »Pointwise and Cadnexus Announce CAPRI CAE Gateway Interface to Gridgen
Fort Worth, Texas, 16 April 2007 - Pointwise and CADNexus announce the release of the CAPRI2NMB interface between CADNexus' CAPRI CAE Gateway and Pointwise's Gridgen meshing software. CADNexus' software provides Gridgen users with a new technique for acquiring CAD data for mesh generation said John Chawner, Pointwise's president. CAPRI has earned a great reputation for providing translation-free,...
Read More »The Ultimate Guide to Writing Import and Export Plugins
FORT WORTH, TX (17 July 2018) – Pointwise, Inc., the choice for CFD meshing, announced a new white paper, “The Ultimate Guide to Writing Import and Export Plugins,” that will help you fully integrate Pointwise into your workflow by customizing it with your file formats. One of the most frequent requests that Pointwise receives is to add native import and export capability for a grid file...
Read More »Pointwise Proposal for High Order Mesh Generation Selected by NASA
FORT WORTH, TX (13 March 2018) - Pointwise's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II proposal “High Order Mesh Curving and Geometry Access” has been selected for award negotiation by NASA. This two-year, approximately $700,000 effort will advance Pointwise’s current mesh curving technology and permit mixed order meshes and h-p adaptation in a parallel environment. Finite element...
Read More »Pointwise Named Small Business of the Year by Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
FORT WORTH, TX (6-March-2018) - Pointwise received the 2018 Small Business of the Year Award from the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce at Mayor Betsy Price’s Annual State of the City address at the Fort Worth Convention Center on 20 February 2018. John Chawner accepted the award on behalf of Pointwise. Pointwise won in the 11-50 employee category and was chosen from a field of 142 nominees in...
Read More »Woeber, Gantt, Wyman Win AIAA Best Paper Award
FORT WORTH, TX (23 January 2018) - Pointwise engineers Carolyn Woeber, Erick Gantt, and Nick Wyman were presented with the AIAA Meshing, Visualization, and Computational Environments Best Paper award at the 2018 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (AIAA SciTech Forum) in Kissimmee, Florida on 9 January 2018. Their paper, AIAA 2017-0363, Mesh Generation for the NASA High Lift Common...
Read More »CFD Meshing Software meshes boundary layers using fewer cells.
Run on Windows, Linux, and Mac, Pointwise v17.1 R2 interfaces with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers and generates structured, unstructured, and hybrid meshes. Included algorithm for agglomerating cells inÃ- hybrid mesh improves reduction in cell count; best reduction achieved during testing wasÃ- 377 million cell mesh reduced to ~155 million cells. Automated T-Rex hybrid mesh...
Read More »CFD Meshing Software supplies wake resolution capabilities.
Gridgen v15.17 CFD meshing software features T-Rex hybrid meshing technique that allows for resolution of wakes and other off-body flow phenomena. Also included is T-Rex (anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion) support for baffles, which lets user insert triangulated surface mesh into middle of volume in vicinity of flow feature. As post-processing step, T-Rex stacks extruded tetrahedra into prisms to...
Read More »CFD Webinar to Demonstrate Automating Blade Design Optimization
FORT WORTH, TX (21 March 2011) - Drs. Chris Sideroff and Durrell Rittenberg will present an hour-long webinar at 9 a.m. PDT on 14 April, demonstrating how to automate the process of optimizing blade design with best in class computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools. The webinar will feature how to save time by automatically creating meshes using scripting, how to create grid topologies suitable...
Read More »Pointwise User Group Meeting Call for Papers
FORT WORTH, TX (21 March 2011) - Pointwise is seeking computational fluid dynamics (CFD) enthusiasts who want to share their Pointwise or Gridgen meshing successes with the CFD community during the Pointwise User Group Meeting on 8-9 November in Fort Worth, TX. The meeting focuses on mesh generation, CFD, training classes, user presentations, future Pointwise plans, one-on-one support sessions...
Read More »Pointwise Sponsors SAE Design Competition
FORT WORTH, TX (15 March 2011) - Pointwise, Inc. is a sponsor of the SAE Aero Design West competition to be held at Thunderbird Field in Dutch Branch Park in Fort Worth, TX, on 18-20 March. Pointwise additionally sponsors two teams participating in the competition, the Jayhawk Heavy Lift team from the University of Kansas and the Assailing Falcons from the Vellore Institute of Technology in...
Read More »Pointwise Engineer to Speak on Meshing at OpenFOAM Workshop
FORT WORTH, TX (1 March 2011) - Dr. Chris Sideroff will speak about multi-block structured meshing and preprocessing for OpenFOAMÃ-® turbomachinery analysis at the 6th OpenFOAM Workshop at Pennsylvania State University on 13-16 June. He will discuss multi-block structured meshing of a high-stagger angle axial rotor, grid topology strategies, techniques for modeling advanced features such as...
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