Pointwise Grid Generation Software

Institute has 1 perpetual and 30 extra licenses for the Pointwise mesh generation software. It is now part of the Fidelity CFD suite from Cadence. Please create a login on Cadence website and download the latest version of the software. If your machine is on the campus intranet, you can give 172.20.48.16 as the license server address while installation.

Learning Pointwise

Here are some useful links shared with us by Mr. Vivek J (KFourMetrics India Pvt. Ltd.).

T-Rex Meshing

• T-Rex Hybrid Meshing in Pointwise

• Introduction to T-Rex

• Using boundary conditions in T-Rex

• T-Rex layers

• New 2D T-Rex Aspect Ratio boundary conditions

• Building Farfield blocks in Pointwise

Quilting

• Quilting can make meshing easier
• Assembling quilts
• Geometry cleanup on import
• Assemble quilt boundaries

Useful videos on Normal Extrusion:

• Overview
• Introduction
• Stop conditions
• Additional options
• Database constrained options
• Smoothing parameters
• Extrusion Boundary Conditions
• Additional options
• Algebraic smoothing

Elliptic Solver:

• Boundary Conditions for Elliptic Solver
• Spacing constraints
• Boundary control functions