3. Preprocessing

The following section focuses on preparing a mesh for Flow360 either manually, using meshing software, or automatically, using automated meshing functionality. Flow360 solver supports the following mesh formats:

• AFLR3 (.ugrid).

• CGNS (single and multi-block).

for details of supported mesh file formats see here.

• 3.1. Install Engineering Sketch Pad (ESP)
  • 3.1.1. Prerequisites
  • 3.1.2. Install Pre-Built Versions
  • 3.1.3. Compile Engineering Sketch Pad and Edge Attribute Plugin
• 3.2. Manual Meshing
  • 3.2.1. Overview
  • 3.2.2. Objectives
  • 3.2.3. Recommendations
  • 3.2.4. Targets
• 3.3. Automated Meshing
  • 3.3.1. Overview
  • 3.3.2. Geometry
  • 3.3.3. Surface Meshing
  • 3.3.4. Volume Meshing
  • 3.3.5. JSON surface mesher
  • 3.3.6. JSON volume mesher