Gridgen Commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Meshing Software Available on Ember at NCSA

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This page provides information about the environment settings that the user must include in their (.modules) file on the home directory in order to use the Gridgen commercial CFD package on the SGI Altix UV (Ember) machine at NCSA. In addition, it is recommended that the user sends an email to flow@ncsa.uiuc.edu indicating the intent to use this software. The login of the user will then be included in the software access list. This information is essential for deciding the number of licenses that NCSA must purchase every year, for the use of these commercial packages.

If you have any questions about the information on this page, please email flow@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

Gridgen

Gridgen is a grid generation software that can be used to generate structured and unstructured grids. The package has the ability to generate grids in a variety of formats. This makes it useful if one is interested in generating grids that need to be used by Fluent and GASP (one does not have to go thru the process of generating a grid file for fluent and redoing the same thing for GASP (or for that matter any other solver)). The current version of Gridgen is 15.16 on the SGI Altix UV (Ember).

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To use Gridgen on on NCSA's Ember, please do the following;

Load the following modules in the same window where Gridgen will be launched;

module load cfd/Gridgen-15.16

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To start Gridgen from the command line, type the following in the same window;

gridgen will bring up the gridgen gui

Gridgen is a product of Pointwise, Inc..