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What is GAMBIT?
A single, integrated preprocessor for CFD analysis: Mesh generation for all Fluent solvers (including FIDAP and POLYFLOW) Structured and Unstructured hexahedral, tetrahedral, pyramid and prisms. Geometry construction and import Using ACIS solid modeling capabilities Using STEP, Para solid, IGES, etc. import Cleanup and modification of imported data Mesh quality examination Boundary zone assignment
Introduction to GAMBIT:
Here we use Gambit software for generating meshes. In essence the mesh consists of a discretization of the fluid domain into small control volumes called elements. For a better simulation, the mesh must follow a given quality criteria, use the most suitable surface (triangles, quads, etc.) and volume (tetrahedral, hexahedral, prism, pyramids, etc.) elements. To start Gambit, make a double click on the icon Gambit 2.2.30. It opens a window where we have to choose the working directory and select run (Run).
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Files:
GAMBIT directory and files: When GAMBIT starts up, it creates a directory called GAMBIT. the process number It also creates a lock file, ident.lok, in the working directory ident.lok prevents any user from starting up another session using the same identifier in the same directory. If the code crashes, this file needs to be manually removed. Three files are created inside this directory ident.dbs = the database. All information will be saved in this file. This file is NOT retrievable upon a crash jou = the journal file. This file is directly accessible from the Run journal form trn = the transcript file. Output from GAMBIT
GAMBIT permanently saves these files to your working directory as ident.dbs, ident.jou and ident.trn anytime you issue a Save option (equivalent to any standard word processor).Upon Save, earlier versions of ident.dbs and ident.trn will be overwritten, while new commands are appended to the file ident.jou
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Upon successful exit of GAMBIT: The directory GAMBIT.# is removed The lock-file ident.lok is deleted
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GUI Components:
GAMBIT allows you to construct and mesh models by means of its graphical user interface (GUI), which is designed to be mouse-driven. The GAMBIT GUI consists of eight components, each of which serves a separate purpose with respect to the creating and meshing of a model. The following sections briefly describe the GUI components.
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The graphics window is the region of the GUI in which the model is displayed. It is located in the upper left portion of the GUI and occupies most of the screen in the default layout. GAMBIT Users Guide presents a more detailed description of the graphics window.
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When you click a main-pad command button, GAMBIT opens an associated sub pad. For example, if you click the GEOMETRY command button on the main pad, GAMBIT open the Geometry sub pad. Each sub pad contains command buttons that perform operations related to the overall purpose of the sub pad. For example, the Geometry sub pad contains command buttons that allow you to perform operations related to the creation and refinement of model geometry. Some of the command buttons located on sub pads open related sub pads of their own. For example, when you click the VOLUME command button on the Geometry sub pad, GAMBIT opens the Geometry/Volume sub pad. Each command button on the
Geometry/Volume sub pad is associated with a specification form that allows you to specify parameters related to the function indicated on the button.
Operation:
In the upper right corner we find the icons corresponding to the main four operations (Operation) that we may carry out within Gambit: Geometry, Mesh, Zones (determine boundary conditions) and Volumes (from left to right).
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Form:
Text Box:
Field for input of data, expressions, parameters
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The cursor is blinking if active To activate - left click in the text box (click-to-focus) Forms with several text boxes The order of input is not important Use tab to go to the next text box Use left click (click-to-focus) to go to any text box
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Pick Lists:
Open the Pick List by clicking on the arrow The Available list is sorted in the order of picking Pick List functionality: Pick or Un-pick, Selected or All entities by highlight in left column and by clicking on the arrows Highlighted picked entities will appear red on the screen i.e.edge.32, edge.33 Non-highlighted picked entities will appear pink i.e. edge.26, edge.28 Right-click in lists area provides additional options Filter can be used to control which objects are picked.
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Mouse Operations:
Problem Description:
The problem to be considered is schematically in fig. We consider flow across a cylinder and look at the wake behind the cylinder.
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Secondly, I have made the rectangular domain. And for that I have marked four vertices. And by using line command I have made the lines to form the rectangle.
After that I have the face to the rectangular domain, by picking the command Operation > Geometry > Face. Without making face we cannot provide the nodes to the domain.
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In the next step I have provided the nodes for making the mesh. I gave 150 nodes throughout the whole rectangle. You can provide the nodes on your own will by choosing the command like interval count.
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In the last step, I used the mesh command to mesh the whole rectangle, as you can see in below figure. For completing this step, followings commands were used Operation > Mesh > Face. And Finally I got the results of the object and analyze the worst element and aspect ratio.
Finally got
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