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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.

P-3C

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. More...

Dalles Dam

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. More...

QinetiQ

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. More...

F-15

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. More...

E-2C

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. More...

Advanced Turbine System

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. More...

JSF

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. More...