Spider is an octree based meshing method, that produces boundary fitted, locally refined, conformal meshes with one or more boundary layers.
 
Benefits:
 
  1. •Spider will shorten turn around times by skipping the CAD data preparation.
  2. •Every wanted mesh size for every feature is possible. This allows pre-studies as well as detail-simulation using the same geometry.
  3. •The mesh size is only limited by the hardware used.
  4. •Spider can be integrated into an existing work flow.
  5. •Spider can run without graphical user interface and is controlled via a configuration file. This allows, if an initial configuration file for a specific application has been created, that variants of the geometry can be done just by rerunning with the same configuration and the new geometry.
  6. •The in-build offscreen-renderer used by the report generator gives a first insight in the generated mesh. Without any interactivity Spider returns a document which summarizes the meshing job and give pictures of the created mesh.
 
 
How spider works:
 
First spider creates a locally refined conformal mesh that overlaps the domain using an octree ...
 
 
... this mesh will then be mapped on the geometry and boundary-layers will be added. Finally the mesh will be smoothed.
 
 
 
Sample meshing report (more information):
 
 
Sample meshes:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Spider