Mesh Capabilities
- Quadrilateral, triangular, hexahedral (brick), tetrahedral, prism (wedge), pyramid, mixed element meshes (hybrid meshes), triangular 3-D shell element, quadrilateral 3-D shell element
- P mesh (group of 0-D, 1-D, 2-D or 3-D topological entities)
- Nonconformal (non-matching) mesh interfaces allowed
- Interpolation including constant, linear, linear discontinuous, quadratic, mini element, 2X2, 4X4
- Import of meshes from Gambit, GeoMESH, FIGEN, POLYMESH, POLYM3D, I-DEAS V12, PATRAN, HyperMesh
- Dynamic solution-based adaptation including:
- Conformal adaption on triangular and tetrahedral meshes
- Hanging-node adaption and mesh embedding for all element types
- Adaptive criteria based on:
- Mold curvature
- Free-surface curvature
- Distance to mold
- Local variation of quantity
- Local mesh deformation
- Maximum size specified in user-defined box
- Automatic interpolation of solution after mesh refinement
- Mesh manipulation tools (scaling, translation, rotation and merging)
- Remeshing techniques (deforming mesh) including:
- Efficient 2-D remeshing technique (SPINES)
- Robust 2-D remeshing technique (Optimesh, Elastic, Lagrangian, Thompson)
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- Efficient 3-D remeshing technique (Optimesh, Streamwise)
- Full 3-D method (Thompson, elasticity-based, Lagrangian)
- 3-D shell Lagrangian remeshing method
- Combination of meshes from different sources into a single file (polyfuse)
- Online mesh information box
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