Program Development Unveils GridPro v9.0

Program Development Co. LLC, developer of automatic grid generation for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), has released version 9.0 of its GridPro product with enhancements in Geometry handling, block topology generation, grid generation and automation.

“Our team has worked hard to provide significant enhancements for high quality meshes, and we are pleased to introduce these improvements in GridPro version 9.0,” says Dr. Peter Eiseman, CEO. “This version of GridPro is a major step forward in providing our customers with the best tool to generate high quality meshes for a broad range of geometries and CFD related phenomena in a timely manner.”

GridPro geometry handling has been enhanced in version 9.0 with multiple features:

• Improved STEP and IGES import
• New surface import formats
• New geometry creation tools
• Updated geometry healing
• Improved surface faceting quality

Version 9.0 of GridPro also brings enhancements to blocking topology and grid generation, including:

• Advanced block topology smoother
• New block topology macro for axisymmetric geometries
• Mapping a block topology template to a new geometry
• Clamped block nesting
• 3D block topology array
• Higher order based sizing & quality checker

GridPro version 9.0 also introduces two new vertical applications for fully automated block topology and mesh generation.

About Program Development Co.

Program Development Company has offered traditional structured grid generation with GridPro for meshing. GridPro focuses on automation. Its customers come from different domains, including turbo machinery, oil and gas, and aerospace. PDC was founded in 1989 by Dr. Peter Eiseman to cater to the grid requirements of NASA’s Glenn Research Centre and has grown to cater to the requirements of CFD for advanced applications worldwide. Program Development Company develops and markets GridPro worldwide with its headquarters in Miami, FL, USA.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.