CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
15 July 2004
Product News
ANSYS, Inc. Takes Automated Rotating Machinery Meshing Tool to Next Level
ANSYS, Inc. ( http://www.ansys.com ) announced the latest release of CFX-TurboGrid version 2.2, a specialized software tool used by rotating machinery designers and engineers. CFX-TurboGrid combines both the sector specific knowledge of computational fluid dynamic simulation for rotating machinery from ANSYS CFX, and the mesh generation technology from ANSYS ICEM CFD.
CFX-TurboGrid is used to create the high-quality meshes specifically required for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of bladed rows for rotating machinery. In an industry where small increases in machine performance can result in significant increases in output, the ability to take design improvements and create a mesh for engineering simulations will translate to larger profits. CFX-TurboGrid can be used to generate highly suitable meshes for the analysis of pumps, turbines, compressors, fans, torque converters, nozzles, diffusers and many other kinds of rotating machinery.
CFX-TurboGrid version 2.2, a major upgrade to CFX turbomachinery grid generation capabilities, brings a new level of speed, automation, flexibility and high mesh quality to the CFX-TurboGrid product for a wide range of axial and radial turbomachinery bladed row components. CFX-TurboGrid version 2.2 automatically generates high quality meshes by determining appropriate mesh parameter settings based on prescribed heuristics that account for the geometry with little or no user input. Meshes use hexahedral elements only, and important geometric areas such as the tip gap can be included. Both interactive response time and speed of 3-D mesh generation has been taken to a new industry level. Using new interactive features to refine the mesh, changes to the mesh are displayed interactively, and turnaround time for full 3-D mesh generation can be as little as 10 seconds for one million node meshes on a typical modern desktop PC.
CFX-TurboGrid is part of the ANSYS system of integrated software for rotating machinery applications, which includes CFX-5T, and CFX- BladeGenT. ANSYS CFX software is the leader in CFD for turbomachinery in many industries such as aerospace and power generation.
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