This page collects information which is specific to ANSYS ICEM CFD

• ICEM Manual
• Tutorials coming with ICEM (see below)
• cfd-online Forums
• “GUI source code”
• LSS Tutorials
• learncax.com Video Tutorial for ICEM

ICEM CFD can be installed with the install media for ANSYS products.
Most versions since V14 are available from Dr. Janiga.

These are the official tutorials provided for ICEM CFD. However, since version 16 these tutorials are not included anymore in the usual help files. Nevertheless these tutorials are still valid.

• icem_tutorial_manual.pdf
• icem_tutorial_manual_files.zip

The tutorials included are:

1. Hexa Mesh Generation for a 2D Pipe Junction
2. Hexa Mesh Generation for a 2D Car
3. Hexa Mesh Generation for a 3D Pipe Junction
4. Hexa Mesh Generation for a Sphere Cube Geometry
5. Hexa Mesh Generation for a Pipe with Embedded Blade
6. Hexa Mesh Generation for an Elbow Part
7. Bottom Up Hexa Mesh Strategy for a Grid Fin
8. Tetra/Prism Mesh in a Fin Configuration
9. Tetra Mesh in a Piston/Valve Assembly
10. Tetra/Prism Mesh Generation for a Helicopter
11. Tetra/Prism Mesh Generation for an Aorta
12. Merged Tetra-Hexa Mesh in a Hybrid Tube
13. Multizone Mesh in HVAC Square-to-circle Transition Duct

Moreover, you can find scripting examples in the ProgrammersGuide in the supplemantary files.

These have been scraped from the net.

The following lectures are presented in official trainings provided by ANSYS. Although only version 14 is shown here, most features haven't changed since that version.

• Introduction to ANSYS ICEM CFD
• Geometry Handling
• Shell Meshing
• Volume Meshing
• Prism Meshing
• Mesh Preparation Before Output to Solver
• Output to Solver
• Introduction to ICEM CFD Hexa
• Additional Hexa Functions

ICEM needs cshell to start. Cshell is available on many Linux and UNIX-based system, but hasn't been installed on Neumann. For that reason ICEM does not start on Neumann, normally.

To fix this issue we have converted the starting script of ICEM from cshell to standard shell syntax. Download the script icemcfd-shellconversion from the wiki.

Extract and copy the file icemcfd to neumann to your home directory. Then make it executeable by:

 chmod +x icemcfd

Now, whenever you want to run ICEM on Neumann, open icemcfd from your specified directory, such as /home/user/icemcfd, instead of the offical programm provided with the respective module file.

Limitations:

• The script is for internal use only! The source code is owned by ANSYS.
• It's only tested with ICEM version 17
• It only supports the batch mode, no gui start-up possible.
• Program-specifc modes of ICEM, such as CFX are not supported.