This article does a nice job of explaining why Greek letters are more or less mandatory for scientific publications. Tecplot’s support for fonts means you can quite easily incorporate these into your own plots, whether use use them as labels or dynamic text.
If you find yourself struggling with this aspect of publication, this video is a good place to start.
Longtime users of Pointwise are familiar with the “old” distribution functions, as summarized in this video.
With the advent of FlashPoint Surface Meshing and its accompanying benefits like proximity-based refinement, though, there’s a newer function that you’re more likely to encounter. This short video is an excellent description of the power of this function, and why you’ll be better off understanding how it works. Don’t forget to review the use of Optimize!
Which should come first: the surface mesh or the volume mesh?
That’s the choice many mesh generators face, and Pointwise users know that the surface-to-volume (hence “S2V”) approach lends itself nicely to control and excellent viscous layers. But as Cadence works towards integrating Pointwise and Numeca – with its Volume-to-Surface based mesher – into a single CFD platform, take a look at this video for a quick overview of the volume-first approach.
