TwinMesh

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Contents 1 TwinMesh 1.1 Mesh Types 1.2 Meshing Techniques 1.3 Geometry Support 1.4 CFD Solver Interfaces 1.5 Supported Platforms 1.6 Literature 1.7 External Links

TwinMesh

TwinMesh is a meshing software developed by CFX Berlin Software GmbH, Germany. It automatically generates hexahedral meshes for the continuously changing fluid volumes of the working chambers of rotary positive displacement machines. The product was released in 2014.

The current product release is Version 2015 (v1.5.1.10), released in December 2014.

Mesh Types

TwinMesh can generate structured hexahedral meshes.

Meshing Techniques

TwinMesh's mesh generation employs the following meshing techniques and smoothing algorithms.

• Option to fix the nodes along the rotors, which results in a general interface between the rotor meshes.
• Option to fix the nodes along the housing geometry to get an 1:1 interface between the rotor meshes.
• Option to fix the nodes on one of the rotors so that the nodes on the other rotor are able to move. This method also results in an 1:1 rotor interface.
• Various smoothing algorithms to control mesh orthogonality and node equidistance in all three dimensions.
• Mesh quality check such as: determinant, min. angle, volume change, aspect ratio.

Geometry Support

TwinMesh supports IGES (.iges) and point data (.csv).

The following geometry modifications are available in TwinMesh.

• Rotor scaling
• Rotor translation
• Rotation angle offset

CFD Solver Interfaces

TwinMesh has built-in support for ANSYS CFX.

Supported Platforms

TwinMesh supports 64-bit Windows versions.

Literature

• Hesse, J., Spille-Kohoff, A., Hauser, J., & Schulze-Beckinghausen, P. (2014). Structured meshes and reliable CFD simulations: TwinMesh for positive displacement machines. In International screw compressor conference, TU Dortmund.
• Spille-Kohoff, A., Hesse, J., & El Shorbagy, A. (2015, August). CFD simulation of a screw compressor including leakage flows and rotor heating. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 90, No. 1, p. 012009). IOP Publishing. ([1])

External Links

* TwinMesh Home Page
* CFX Berlin Home Page