Introduction

Pointwise AIM Overview

A module in the Computational Aircraft Prototype Syntheses (CAPS) has been developed to interact with the general grid generator Pointwise.

The Pointwise AIM provides the CAPS users with the ability to generate volume meshes mostly suitable for CFD analysis. This includes both inviscid analysis and viscous analysis with boundary layers using the pointwise T-Rex algorithm. 2D mesh generation is currently not available.

An outline of the AIM's inputs, outputs and attributes are provided in AIM Inputs and AIM Outputs and AIM Attributes, respectively.

Files output:

• caps.egads - Pointwise egads file generated
• capsUserDefaults.glf - Glyph script with parameters set with AIM Inputs

Pointwise should be executed on Linux/macOS with the command line:

pointwise -b $CAPS_GLYPH/GeomToMesh.glf caps.egads capsUserDefaults.glf

and on Windows with:

%PW_HOME%\win64\bin\tclsh.exe %CAPS_GLYPH%\GeomToMesh.glf caps.egads capsUserDefaults.glf