With hundreds of solvers being used for CFD and FEA, the philosophy behind ICEM CFD's integrated structure is obvious: provide the user with a single environment ideally suited for all grid generation requirements. The ICEM CFD Mesh Editor (MED) is just that.
ICEM CFD MED contains a Geometry Database that can import CAD data directly from a variety of commercial and standardized formats. Once imported, powerful tools are at your control to assemble, cleanup, and repair the geometry for your specific requirements.
Diagnostic tools enable you to detect gaps in the geometry, in this example, gaps greater than a set tolerance are shown in YELLOW. Connected edges are shown in RED. Of course there are powerful tools to repair these.
But one of the stongest features of ANSYS ICEM CFD is the patch independence that enables us to handle many issues such as gaps, overlaps, slivers, etc, without repair.
ANSYS ICEM CFD also has the tools required to Create CAD from scratch. This Bypass Jet Engine with detailed thrust reversers was created entirely within ANSYS ICEM CFD.
In this example, we combine two CAD sources and an imported mesh. We can convert the mesh to Faceted Geometry (STL) and merge the geometries, or we could mesh the two existing CAD portions and join the meshes. Flexibility of process is important to ANSYS ICEM CFD users.
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| From the Geometry Database, access to all of the ANSYS ICEM CFD meshing technology is available. A modular approach can be easily implemented, whereby various sections of the model are constructed using different ICEM CFD meshing modules.
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| Multiple sections or types of Mesh and/or Geometry can be assembled and merged, even conformally. Highly interactive tools and diagnostics are available to visualize grid quality, and perform operations such as smoothing, localized repairs, and coarsening/refinement. Output is available to over 100 solvers, including standardized formats such as CGNS. |  |
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