FORT WORTH, TX (17 December 2012)—Pointwise is accepting entries for the Meshy Award contest for the most outstanding mesh generated using Pointwise or Gridgen. The winner will be announced on 20 March 2013 during the Pointwise User Group Meeting.

Appreciating the beauty and intricacies of a masterfully designed mesh, Pointwise inaugurated the Meshy Award to showcase the best of the best. Entries are judged on visual appeal, originality and uniqueness.

To enter the contest, complete the form that can be found on the Pointwise User Group Meeting website, wwww.pointwise.com/ugm. The deadline for entries is 22 February 2013.

The winner of the award will receive a trophy, have their name added to the Meshy Award Trophy, and have their mesh featured on a T-shirt to be given to Pointwise User Group Meeting attendees. In addition, they will have the opportunity to make a short presentation about their mesh during the meeting.

Additional information is available found on the Pointwise User Group Meeting website, wwww.pointwise.com/ugm. As entries are submitted, they will be added to a photo album on Pointwise’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/Pointwise.

Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing engineering analysts today – mesh generation for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The company’s Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers, such as ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CCM+, ANSYS CFX and OpenFOAM as well as many neutral formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows (Intel and AMD), Linux (Intel and AMD), and Mac, and has scripting languages that can automate CFD meshing. Large manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide rely on Pointwise as their complete CFD preprocessing solution.

More information about Pointwise is available at www.pointwise.com.

Pointwise is a registered trademark and Pointwise Glyph and T-Rex are trademarks of Pointwise, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owner.

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Dr. Michael Böttcher of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology was named winner of the Pointwise Meshy Award 2011 for meshes he generated in conjunction with a project involving steam generators and pumps for a power plant. "We are pleased to award this trophy to Dr. Michael Böttcher because the mesh and images he has generated demonstrate a profound understanding of the physics of his problem, an expertise in the Pointwise meshing software, and the ability to present results in a straightforward yet elegant way,” said Dr. John Steinbrenner, vice president of research and development at Pointwise, who presented the trophy. “It is the work of scientists like Dr. Böttcher that furthers the expanding Pointwise reputation of excellence."

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For more information: Jan Batts 817-377-2807 news@pointwise.com