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This Is How I Glyph – Splitting Multiple Connectors

Posted on October 6, 2016 by

  Drilling down the grid hierarchy and working directly with connectors is a surefire way to achieve the control you desire while meshing with Pointwise. A connector’s grid point distribution and dimension propagate through a multiblock structured grid system and … Continue reading →

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This Is How I Glyph – Dimension Connectors From Spacings

Posted on September 22, 2016 by

When using 2-D T-Rex in Pointwise to resolve highly curved surfaces with anisotropic triangles—the leading edge of a wing section for example—it’s usually recommended to keep the aspect ratio of these anisotropic triangles within some limit.  We recommend an aspect … Continue reading →

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This Is How I Glyph – Uniform Unstructured Domain Refinement

Posted on September 8, 2016 by

Previously I wrote about a Glyph script that performs automatic grid refinement. That script starts with refining connectors, then domains, and finally blocks. For unstructured grids, domains are initialized using their bounding edges. The simple action of refining a connector, … Continue reading →

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I’m Faranggis Bagheri and This Is How I Mesh

Posted on September 1, 2016 by

I was born in Tehran, the capital of Iran in 1983. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yazd University in the beautiful city of Yazd, which has a history of over 5,000 years with unique Persian architecture. … Continue reading →

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This Is How I Glyph – Split Connectors At Their Intersection

Posted on August 25, 2016 by

Pointwise was exhibiting at AIAA’s Propulsion & Energy conference this past summer in Salt Lake City, UT when one of our users visited our booth at the conference with a question about how they could split two intersecting connectors at … Continue reading →

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This Is How I Glyph – Squeeze Con

Posted on July 28, 2016 by

Connector creation and manipulation is one of the most important, but tedious, tasks when creating multiblock structured topologies. You may find yourself repeatedly copying and pasting the same connector to construct a wireframe that defines the blocking strategy in a … Continue reading →

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I’m John Steinbrenner and This Is How I Mesh

Posted on April 14, 2016 by

I was born and raised in Parma, OH, a blue-collar suburb of Cleveland coincidentally less than 10 miles from John Chawner’s hometown of Rocky River.  I was the first in my family to attend college, but was followed by my … Continue reading →

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