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Very good overview of free and commercial [http://www-users.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~roberts/software.html mesh generators]. | Very good overview of free and commercial [http://www-users.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~roberts/software.html mesh generators]. | ||
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Revision as of 18:43, 25 September 2006
In addition to the officially supported tools (especially paraFoam) there is a number of other software that make life with OpenFOAM easier.
1 Pre-Processors
For people who need a bit more complicated grids (of course you can always do it with blockMesh.
Very good overview of free and commercial mesh generators.
1.1 NETGEN
Netgen is an automatic 3d tetrahedral mesh generator.
It accepts input from STL, IGES and STEP file format (CAD).
2 Post-Processors
Looking at your results in many colorful ways.
2.1 OpenDX
The mighty OpenDX is for those who think that Paraview is too simple (and not powerful enough).