Gridgen's Interfaces to CFD Solvers

Gridgen supports neutral, native, and de facto standard interfaces to CFD solvers (including the specification of solver boundary conditions), grid files, and geometry formats to ensure that Gridgen fits into your CFD process.

Grid and Flow Solver Data Export

Grids and flow solver data (e.g. boundary conditions) can be exported from Gridgen to the following formats.

Gridgen supports the CGNS data standard for CFD.

ADPAC
ANSYS CFX (incl. V4)
CFDSHIP-IOWA
CFD++
CGNS
CNSFV
COBALT
COMO
CRUNCH
DTNS
Exodus II
FALCON
FANS

FDNS/UNIC
FieldView Boundary File
FloWizard
FLUENT
FLUENT V4
GUST
INCA V2 and V3
NCC
NPARC
NSAERO
OVERFLOW
PHOENICS

SCRYU
SCRYU/Tetra
Splitflow
STAR-CD
TACOMA
TASCflow
TEAM
TETREX
VSAERO
VSAEROhybrid
WIND
WIND-US

Grid Import and Export

Read more about Gridgen's interoperability in this article.

Just the grids themselves can be imported and exported to and from a variety of formats.

Import	Export
FIELDVIEW Unstructured Gridgen style structured grids NASTRAN PLOT3D structured grids STL VRML 1.0	AVS FIELDVIEW Unstructured Gridgen style structured grids IGES NASTRAN PATRAN PLOT3D structured grids STL VRML 1.0 XPATCH

Geometry Import and Export

Geometry on which the grid will be generated (database in Gridgen's vernacular) can be imported from and exported to a variety of formats.

Import	Export
Gridgen style wireframe Gridgen segments/points Gridgen composite Gridgen NMB IGES NASTRAN (triangular facets) PATRAN PLOT3D wireframe STL (triangular facets) VRML 1.0 (triangular facets)	Gridgen style wireframe Gridgen segments/points Gridgen composite IGES PLOT3D wireframe