February '05 Readers Choice Award: CFX-TurboGrid 2.2

By DE Editors

February (November 2004) TurboGrid Adds Speed to Meshing Tool For Rotating MachineryANSYS, Inc. (Canonsburg, PA) has added speed, automation,flexibility, and mesh quality to CFX-TurboGrid 2.2. CFX-TurboGrid 2.2creates meshes specifically for computational fluid dynamics (CFD)analysis of bladed rows for a wide range of axial and radialturbomachinery components. Version 2.2 combines both thesector-specific knowledge of CFD simulation for rotating machinery fromANSYS CFX and mesh generation technology from ANSYS ICEM CFD.CFX-TurboGrid 2.2 automatically generates the meshes by determiningappropriate parameter settings based on prescribed heuristics thataccount for the geometry with little or no user input. Meshes usehexahedral elements only, and important geometric areas such as the tipgap can be included. Both interactive response time and speed of meshgeneration has been improved. CFX-TurboGrid 2.2 uses new interactivefeatures to refine the mesh, so that changes to the mesh are displayedinteractively. Turnaround time for full 3D mesh generation can take 10seconds for one million node meshes on a typical modern desktop PC,according to the company. For further information, go to ansys.com.

CFX-TurboGrid 2.2 from ANSYS.CFX-TurboGrid 2.2 from ANSYS received the most votes on our November 2004 websiteballot.