[Brain]

hello
I am trying to develop a flow solver for unstructured grid of triangular mesh using just c programming language which can take the input for mesh file data from user and solve navier strokes equation for the mesh for that I need the input of list of all the nodes present in the mesh and their respective coordinates plus a list of all the elements of the mesh with the number of their vertices nodes
let us say that I am doing this for a triangular mesh in a 2D Plane so i need a list of all nodes with their coordinates and a separate list of all elements with the node number of the three nodes which forming their corner.
Now if i do the the solid modeling and mesh in Mechanical APDL of ansys I get a ready to go lists for above two in name of node list and element list
But I want to get this list for a mesh produced using ansys workbench which exports only .msh,.mechdat,.poly,.cgns,.pri,.tgf
Can anybody tell me how to extract node and element information from above file formats in a way that can be fed to a c programme as a input

[novakm]

Hi.

I would start with cgns. It's an universal and well documented fomat.

Have a look here:
Reading a mesh from a CGNS file

Martin