Surface boundaries editor

Description

Figure 2: The surface boundaries editor dialog.

The dialog permits you to define new boundary ids or to change existing ones (including the preferred colors). Highlighted triangles can be assigned a new boundary id using the dialog's set button.

Supported boundaries types per file format

Abaqus Input file format only supports boundaries of type "Surface" or "Surface Environment". Boundaries with unsupported type will be seen as "Surface" boundaries.

ANSYS Input

ANSYS Input file format only supports boundaries of type "Surface". All others boundaries types will be set to "Surface".

Nastran Bulk Data

Nastran Bulk Data file format does not support boundaries. All defined boundaries will be seen as shell elements.

CGNS

CGNS file format supports the following boundaries types:

• "Axis"
• "Degenerate Line"
• "Degenerate Point"
• "Dirichlet"
• "Extrapolate"
• "Far Field"
• "General"
• "Velocity Inlet"
• "Inflow Subsonic"
• "Inflow Supersonic"
• "Neumann"
• "Outflow"
• "Outflow Subsonic"
• "Outflow Supersonic"
• "Symmetry"
• "Symmetry Polar"
• "Tunnel Inflow"
• "Tunnel Outflow"
• "Wall"
• "Wall Invis Cid"
• "Wall Viscous"
• "Wall Viscous Heat Flux"
• "Wall Viscous Isothermal"

Ensight

Ensight file format does not have any boundary type. All boundaries will have a "None" type.

Fluent

Fluent file format supports the following boundaries types:

• "Axis"
• "Fan"
• "Interface"
• "Interior"
• "Mass Flow Inlet"
• "Outflow"
• "Parent"
• "Periodic"
• "Periodic Shadow"
• "Pressure Far Field"
• "Pressure Inlet"
• "Pressure Outlet"
• "Symmetry"
• "Velocity Inlet"
• "Wall"

IDEAS

Like Ensight, IDEAS does not support any boundary type. All boundaries will have a "None" type.

Tecplot

Tecplot file format supports the following boundaries types:

• "Axis"
• "Contact"
• "Degenerate Line"
• "Degenerate Point"
• "Dirichlet"
• "Extrapolate"
• "Fan"
• "Far Field"
• "General"
• "Inflow Subsonic"
• "Inflow Supersonic"
• "Interface"
• "Interior"
• "Mass Flow Inlet"
• "Neumann"
• "Outflow"
• "Outflow Subsonic"
• "Outflow Supersonic"
• "Parent"
• "Periodic"
• "Periodic Shadow"
• "Pressure Far Field"
• "Pressure Inlet"
• "Pressure Outlet"
• "Surface"
• "Surface Environment"
• "Symmetry"
• "Symmetry Polar"
• "Tunnel Inflow"
• "Tunnel Outflow"
• "Velocity Inlet"
• "Wall"
• "Wall Invis Cid"
• "Wall Viscous"
• "Wall Viscous Heat Flux"
• "Wall Viscous Isothermal"