Hello! I have been working in developing my own FEM software for CFD (my PHD). Now my University is looking for a software for sale that can do the grid generation and post processing visualization. The price should be about U$ 600,00. Does anybody recommend a good soft for that price (or close to it)? It should be used in a PC with Win98. And the output data should be in a format that could easily be converted to the processor input.

Thank you for any suggestions,

Astrid Barros COPPE - UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

(1). My impression is that they (vendors) always have special low price for educational versions. (2). Why not get the information directly from the vendors?

If you can use unix (or linux) instead of win98 this is a free solution:

for grid generation:

http://www-rocq.inria.fr/modulef/ I use the modulef package to generate both structured and unstructured grids in 2D and 3D. It works well.

for postprocessing: http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/XCM/gmv/GMVHome.html I have used this software On the following OS: - Linux (x86) - Solaris (sun sparcstation) - FreeBSD (x86) - Irix6.? (SGI O2)

and it worked very well. Sorry but I never got any results on windowsNT.

Hello,

for visualization, there are 2 tools I´m currently using which are at no cost: vtk, which is a library of vizualisation routines and openDX, which is a full-featured scientific visualization system.

vtk can be programmed in several high-level languages, for example C++, tcl/tk, python and java. It supports unstructured grids with all kinds of elements.

openDX uses a GUI to build so-called vizualization networks, which consist of modules with different tasks (for example data reading, processing, rendering...). DX supports only a limited number of cell types, but this can be solved by decomposing not supported cell types.

For more info, see their webpages (www.kitware.com/vtk.html and www.opendx.org)

Hope this helps,

Thomas

Hi,

We offer a discounted University version of ICEM CFD pre and post processor for around 800 GBP which is close to your budget. Visit www.icemcfd.com for your local office if you are interested.

Hope this helps

David

Hello,

I am a CFD Engineer from Analytical and Computational Research, Inc. which specilized in the CFD related softwares and consultancy. We have a complete CFD solutions sofware called Answer-Express which includes CFD solver, Visualizer and Grid Generator. Its support all MS Windows OS versions and price will be quite reasonable and will be very less what you have mentioned.

For more details, Plz have a contact with these people:

1. Akshai runchal

ACRi

1931 Stradella Road, Bel Air, CA90077

Tel: 1-310-471-3023; Fax: 1-310-471-0797

runchal@acri-us.com

www.acri-us.com; www.acri.fr

2. Dr. Madhukar M. Rao

Analytical and Computational Research, Inc.

10901 Reed Hartman Hwy, Suite 223, Cincinnati, OH45242, USA

Tel : (513) 784 0888

Email : Madhukar.Rao@acri-us.com

Our Website: www.acri-us.com

Hope it might help you.

Cheers

Regards

Rajeev

Please consider Gridgen. For more information see http://www.pointwise.com