Grid Generation

TGrid

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What is TGrid?

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Gambit vs. TGrid

Gambit is a grid-generator and a geometry modeler
TGrid is a pure grid generator
Gambit is a general purpose grid generator for unstructured grids
TGrid is more focused on tet-based algorithms
Gambit-GUI is more user-friendly
TGrid-GUI is aligned with Fluent solver interface
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Gambit and TGrid

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Grid generation techniques

From S. Owen, 2005

GAMBIT
TGrid

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Tetrahedral Meshes

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Hybrid Meshes

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HexCore Meshes

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Starting Up

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Tri/Tet Mesh Generation

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Tri/Tet Mesh Quality Measure

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Tri/Tet Mesh Quality Measure

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Tri/Tet Mesh Quality Measure

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Improving Quality

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Delaunay Violation

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