CENTAUR Tutorials
This section of the manual provides a step by step explanation of the process used to generate grids using CENTAUR .
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GUI Window Introduction
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Basic Mesh Generation
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Multiple Zones
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Layer Management
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CAD Cleaning
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Advanced CAD Cleaning
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Repeated CAD Cleaning
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| Sources for Mesh Generation | ||
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Source Creation
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Additional Source Types
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Offset Sources
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Anisotropic Sources
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Structured Surface Mesh Generation
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Locally Structured Surface Mesh Generation
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Basic Extended Hex Layers (EHL)
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Advanced Extended Hex Layers (EHL)
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Extended Prism Layers (EPL)
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Free (Floating) Blocks
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All Hexahedra
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All Hexahedra (Split Face)
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Advanced All Hexahedra
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Fill Gaps with Blocks (All Hexahedra)
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Hexa Blocks for Pipes and Holes
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Cavity Blocks
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Special Cavity Blocks
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Swept Blocks
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Transition Blocks
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2D Mesh Generation
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Advanced 2D Mesh Generation
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Extracted 2D Mesh
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| Example Applications | ||
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Example Airplane
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Example Helicopter
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Example Turbomachinery Geometry (Vane/Blade)
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| Special Features | ||
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Superpanels
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Unstructured Hexahedra
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Wake Block
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Embedded Surfaces
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Wake Surface Mesh
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Actuator Disk
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Shock Surface
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STL-Based Meshing
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Overlapping Meshes
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Advanced Overlapping Meshes
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Foreign Surface Mesh
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Custom Axis
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Scripting
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Parallel
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Thin Geometry Surface Mesh Generation
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High Order Mesh
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Polyhedra Mesh
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| Mesh Quality | ||
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Surface and Boundary Layer
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Tetrahedra
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Modular
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Modular Mesh Generation
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Modular In-Place
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Modular Surface Mesh Generation
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Mesh Movement
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Cloning
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Surface Cloning
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Volume Mesh Cloning (Mirrored)
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Volume Mesh Cloning (Rotational)
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Cloning CAD Preparation
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Visualize Solution
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Additional Field Visualization Techniques
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Create Diagrams
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Calculate Field Data
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Flow Feature Detection
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2D Solution Post-Processing
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Auto Refinement
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Auto Regeneration (Domain Interior)
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Auto Redistribution (Boundary Layer Stacks)
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Auto Regeneration (Boundary Layer Stacks)
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Refinement Using Feature Detection Flags
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The files needed to perform these tutorials can be downloaded here.

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