Now I reused the full Hexaeder mesh (Hex20 & Wedge15 only) from Ansys in PrePoMax to make some comparisons. In my post “Wind turbine hub calculation in Ansys” you find more information of the mesh…
Category: PrePoMax
Pre and Post-processor with a modern user interface for the Calculix FEM solver.
Moving load with Julia in PrePoMax
Some weeks ago I prepared a simulation of a wheel with moving load in Ansys. And I would like to calculate the improved Ansys mesh in PrePoMax as well. So I translated the mesh from…
I went into the mesh
A post from Diego Magela Lemos on LinkedIn got me. He used the great work from Prof. Christophe Geuzaine to create a mesh from a picture in Gmsh. I already used Gmsh before to convert…
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
Some month ago I prepared a geometry from a rest of a bicycle chain in FreeCAD. I used only a caliper to measure the dimensions. Because I really wanted to test the nonlinear contact in…
Steel wheel in PrePoMax
Keep the wheels turning. A steel wheel with shell elements has been on my list for a long time. In the past, I always had only aluminum rims with solid elements in the simulation (see…
Wind turbine hub calculation in PrePoMax
I would like to calculate the finite element stress of a 5MW wind turbine hub for a fatigue calculation in Fatlab and I came across PrePoMax. PrePoMax is an open-source pre- and postprocessor for an…