Multipurpose Intelligent Meshing Environment
Powerful mesh generation, easy to use.
Conceived and developed by the people behind CFD++®, MIME® was syngineered to create meshes that effectively solve fluid dynamics and multiphysics problems.
What is MIME®?
Robust mesh generation with MIME®
MIME® is a robust mesh generation software package that can be used to create meshes for a wide variety of applications including internal and external flows, aerospace, automotive, and industrial applications. MIME® creates meshes for fluid mechanics applications, structural mechanics applications, and combinations that can exist in multiphysics applications. MIME® can respond effectively to the requirements of the problem space —boundary and shear layers which require prismatic mesh layers, wakes which require uniformity in the volume, periodic domains which require mesh periodicity, geometrically adaptive refinement to adjust to curvature effects, etc. — ensuring an optimal mesh for every simulation.
Powerful mesh generation, yet so simple to use.
MIME® does not include CAD capabilities but integrates well with CAD and CAD cleanup software in the workflow. MIME’s focus is meshing very complex geometries in a manner that is consistent with the underlying physics so as to reliably generate meshes that can provide the expected results. MIME® can be run from the command line, allowing users to automate their workflows or to regenerate meshes without the need for invoking the graphical user interface every time. MIME® includes Wizards to help simplify the meshing process. For instance, the Aerospace Wizard utilizes user-given free stream conditions to automatically produce an appropriate boundary layer mesh on viscous wall boundaries while leaving the mesh coarser in the far field.
Syngineered by the Solver People
MIME® is unique in that it was conceived and developed by people who also developed CFD++®. It was designed by the “Solver People” to solve fluid dynamics problems and multiphysics problems reliably and effectively. CFD++®, CAA++® and CSM++® help drive the evolution of MIME® in a purpose-driven manner, ensuring compatibility and synergy among the products. MIME® was designed from the outset to be easy to learn and easy to apply, not just to simple problems but to very complex problems. It will automatically obey every vertex, every edge, and every face in the geometry. MIME® can import CAD models (e.g., Parasolid and ACIS formats), as well as discrete geometries (e.g., STL). When paired with SIM++®, MIME® has access to an even wider selection of native CAD formats.
Benefits of MIME®
Innovate
MIME® eliminates manual, non-value added operations. With MIME®, there is no need to generate mesh topology. MIME® provides tools to automatically resolve the details of your geometry and to automate the specification of mesh sizes.
Integrate
Great synergy with CFD++®: MIME® provides rapid and consistent meshing of complex models with accurate simulation results. Additionally, MIME® and CFD++® work in collaboration to adapt meshes to improve mesh resolution of the simulation.
Interface
The MIME® user interface has a very short learning curve. Users can become proficient enough to create meshes for complicated geometries after only a few hours of training.
DLR-F6 model meshed in MIME® for the 2nd AIAA Drag Prediction Workshop
Launch vehicle platform mesh
Golf ball aerodynamics
Mars landing probe
Flying wing configuration
Appended ship hull with automatic sizing control
Submarine mesh using automatic mesh sizing
Francis turbine mesh using curvature-based refinement to automatically resolve the blade leading and trailing edges.
Automatic STL tagging using MIME®
2D and 3D meshing
Great synergy with all solvers from Metacomp; rapid and consistent meshing of complex models with accurate simulation results
Import geometry from CAD
MIME® can import CAD models (e.g. Parasolid and ACIS formats), as well as discrete geometry representations (e.g. STL).
Quad surface extrusion
Quad surface extrusion with volume control to transitioning tetrahedral cells
Prism offset meshing
Prism offset meshing with volume control in transition to tetrahedral mesh
Point refinement
Use points-based controls to further refine a mesh
Volume based refinement
Control volume mesh density by specifying geometric shapes