Fidelity Pointwise 2022.2 – Here’s What’s New

Fidelity Pointwise 2022.2 is here and there are a variety of new features and enhancements to efficiently generate meshes for fast, high-fidelity CFD computations. In particular, we want to showcase for you High-Performance Grid Elevation, Automatic Surface Mesh Improvements, and Improved Efficiency for Unstructured Block Smoothing.

High-Performance Grid Elevation

The next generation of high-order flow solvers requires high-order meshes. High-order grid elevation is now more fully integrated into the Fidelity Pointwise workflow under the Grid menu. New in 2022.2 is the ability to export mixed-order meshes in a variety of CAE formats without leaving the meshing task. And, thanks to new performance enhancements, mesh elevation is 2X-15X faster than in Pointwise 2022.1.

Mixed-order mesh containing linear (green), quadratic (yellow), cubic (pink), and quartic (blue) elements. Note that regions of high curvature are captured with higher-order elements while regions with less curvature require lower-order elements.

ASM Improvements

When generating a surface mesh with Automatic Surface Mesh (ASM), it is often the case that geometry features cause unwanted clustering of cells, resulting in over-refinement of the resulting 3D mesh and excessive computation time. New improvements to the ASM workflow make it easier than ever to create and edit filters and there are several new controls that users now have available to address cell distribution. You can:

• Specify a minimum edge length and radius of curvature both at the global scale and per boundary edge
• Apply an equally spaced distribution to thin surfaces, such as blunt trailing edges
• Set a growth rate and layer count per boundary edge for growing anisotropic cells

Results of ASM before (upper left) and after (lower right) improvements to mesh size controls in Pointwise 2022.2. Note the overly dense clustering of cells is no longer present.

Improved Efficiency for Unstructured Block Smoothing

Unstructured block smoothing is now significantly faster due to new performance enhancements. Cell quality can now be improved on average 5X-7X faster than previous versions, with speedups up to 10X faster in some cases. This brings block smoothing time down from hours to minutes. By running the smoother in multiple passes with a few iterations per pass, smoothing can be achieved as quickly as possible, resulting in a high-quality mesh for optimal CFD computations.

Unstructured block smoothing speedup from Fidelity Pointwise 2022.1 to 2022.2 across a variety of cases.

Download Fidelity Pointwise 2022.2 

All these features and more are available to you in Fidelity Pointwise 2022.2. Download it today.

Pointwise 2022.2 is identical to Pointwise V18.6 R4 for those customers still using the legacy version using RLM for license management.