Gambit 2.4.6

GAMBIT is a software package designed to help analysts and designers build and mesh models for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and other scientific applications. GAMBIT receives user input by means of its graphical user interface (GUI). The GAMBIT GUI makes the basic steps of building, meshing, and assigning zone types to a model simple and intuitive, yet it is versatile enough to accommodate a wide range of modeling applications.

GAMBIT can import geometry from CAD programs in various formats: PARASOLID, ACIS, STEP, or IGES and interact directly with the programs CATIA V4 and Pro / E. Often during the import geometry problems inconsistencies objects. GAMBIT has a built-in finding and fixing these problems, which greatly simplifies the process of creating the model.
GAMBIT has powerful features for creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional computational domains directly within the program, ranging from construction of lines and splines, ending with the creation of solid objects. Built specialized module G / Turbo allows you to automate the creation of geometric models of blade machines. Different CFD problems require the construction of various types of nets. GAMBIT has a powerful mesh generator that allows to create various types of nets: a structured geksaidalnuyu grid, automatic (unstructured) and geksaidalnuyu tetraidalnuyu grid. In addition, it is possible to create the boundary layers with combined grids. After constructing the grid, the user has the opportunity to check its quality on a variety of parameters (skewness elements, aspect ratio).

Format and Font Conventions
-Format Conventions
The GAMBIT documentation suite employs two standard format types.
- Graphic format
- Layout format

The graphic format defines the types of symbols that are used to represent control elements and command buttons on the GAMBIT graphical user interface (GUI). The layout format defines the structure of the documentation with respect to the description of GAMBIT specification forms.

- Graphic Format
The GAMBIT GUI employs two types of components for user interaction.
- Control elements
- Toolpad command buttons

Control elements allow you to perform operations such as executing actions and operations, choosing from among a given set of options, and inputting alphanumeric data. Toolpad command buttons allow you to perform operations such as opening specification forms and controlling GUI display characteristics-for example, the overall layout of the graphics window or the orientation of the model.

The following sections describe the appearance and use of the components listed above as well as the graphic format that is used throughout the GAMBIT documentation to represent each type of component.