## 2.1. Valid Mesh Elements in CFX

The CFX-Solver technology works with unstructured meshes. This does not prohibit the use of structured meshes. However a structured mesh will always be dealt with internally as an unstructured mesh.

The CFX-Solver can solve flows in a mesh that involves any one or more of, and only, the following element types:

You must write the program using the API to translate the mesh read from the 3rd-party file into a format that can be processed by CFX-Pre.

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