Applications of CFD based on Pointwise and Gridgen
Pointwise and Gridgen have been used to generate CFD meshes for a wide
variety of applications from the traditional, high technology realm
of aerospace engineering to disciplines as diverse as marine
hydrodynamics, biomedical, and electromagnetics. As long as you're
interested in accurate CFD solutions, you can use either Pointwise or
Gridgen to generate your meshes.
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Updating proven aircraft like the P-3C Orion for new weapons like
the HAAWC ensures that these venerable platforms will fly and fight
another day. Without a P-3C wind tunnel model, engineers at
Naval Air Systems Command in Pax River,
Maryland turned to CFD and Gridgen to provide a safe separation flight
clearance prior to flight test.
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
relies on Gridgen because they need a preprocessor that can handle
built geometry such as dams and tailraces in addition to bathymetric
data. Their CFD analyses bring it all together so they can minimize
fish mortality through this hydroelectric project.
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Engineers at QinetiQ Haslar
found that Gridgen's scripting does more than just reduce their
meshing time from 2-3 days to 10 minutes. They can also share
Glyph scripts with partners an ocean away to study collaboratively
the flow physics of maneuvering submarines.
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When you want to simulate the aerodynamics of control surface
deflection you need geometric accuracy in order to compute aerodynamic
accuracy. To circumvent complex geometry problems in the mesh, engineers
at Cobalt Solutions used Gridgen's hybrid
mesh capabilities to generate a high quality overset hybrid
mesh for the F-15.
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When Northrop Grumman has to add scoops,
domes, or props to an old Navy workhorse, the E-2C Hawkeye
surveillance aircraft, they turn to another workhorse - Pointwise's
Gridgen software.
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Creating structured grids for complex geometry such as turbomachinery
scrolls is never easy. But Gridgen let engineers at
Allison apply CFD to an advanced system
in a way that yielded accurate cooling flux requirements for the
scroll transition.
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Early in the design of the Joint Strike Fighter,
Northrop Grumman
was concerned about negative lift and hot gas injestion on
the short takeoff and vertical landing configuration of their
prototype. Those concerns were assuaged by bringing CFD and
Gridgen to bear.
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