AutoMesh™

NUMECA introduces a new generation of full Hex and Hex dominant meshing tools, covering the whole range of CAE applications, with a suite of dedicated tools for high-quality grids. 

AutoMesh™ includes the following meshing tools:

• AutoGrid5™: Automatic Full Hex Multi-block Structured Meshing of Multi-stage Turbomachinery
• HEXPRESS™: Unstructured Full-Hexahedral Meshing
• HEXPRESS™/Hybrid: Parallel Unstructured Hex Dominant Meshing for complex and/or unclean geometries
• IGG™: Interactive Geometry Modeler and Multi-Block Structured Grid Generator 

AutoMesh™ software systems are available on all major platforms as stand-alone software, interfaced with all major CFD commercial solvers and supporting direct CAD connectivity to most of the CAD systems.

Key features

AutoGrid5™

• Automatic structured grid generator for Multi-stage Turbomachinery
• Wizard mode : optimal topology based on geometry application
• Multi-stage, by-pass, bulb geometries capability
• Automated blocking and meshing of axi-symmetric effects
• Three dimensional effects meshing through advanced template
• Python scripting technology – Recording feature
• Plenty of applications: pumps, radial & axial compressors and turbines, wind turbines, fans....

HEXPRESS™

• Automatic full Hexahedral Grids (no prism, no tetrahedra, no pyramid)
• Direct CAD import capabilities
• CAD manipulation and decomposition tools
• Mesh wizard for rapid solution set-up and easy back and forth operation
• Buffer cell and boundary layer insertion for high quality cells in boundary layer regions

Automatic strucutred hex mesh generated in minutes - wind turbine

Structured mesh on wind turbine

• Automatic refinement procedures based on user defined sensors either next to solid walls or at specified area in the domain
• Multi domain capabilities allowing the treatment of CHT and multi-part geometry models
• Full non-matching multi-block connection, allowing multi-row turbomachinery meshing

HEXPRESS™/Hybrid

• Automated CAD cleaning thanks to HoleSearch technology
• Ultra-fast and scalable mesh generation thanks to  fully-parallel process
• Full edge capturing according to user request
• Mesh arbitrarily complex shapes: internal/external, CFD & FEM grids
• Full edge capturing on user request
• Details in the geometry are captured according to user-specified level of refinement
• Batch or Interactive GUI-fully scriptable
• Flexible viscous layers insertion with smooth transition
• Volume mesh, pure Tets, pure Hex or Hybrid

IGG™

• Common CAD formats as import
• Many CAD features based on NURBS curves and surfaces
• Powerful tolerance management system, avoiding tedious CAD repair tasks
• Simple and intuitive blocking tool
• Automatic block mapping
• Full automatic block connection tool ensuring grid consistency at the interface between blocks
• Boundary shape clustering
• Snapping functions
• Internal faces and edges allowing full control of block grids
• Algebraic and elliptic smoothers for surface and volume meshes
• CAD projection
• Saving and viewing surface and block grids at different coarse grid levels

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