Mesh Generation & Grid Generation on the Web

The aim of this document is to provide information on mesh and grid generation: people working in the field, research groups, books and conferences. It is maintained by Robert Schneiders.

Mesh generation is an interdisciplinary area, and people from different departments are working on it: Mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers from many disciplines. Despite that fact that surprisingly many people are active in the field, often there are few contacts between researchers. The aim of this page is to improve communication between research groups and to help people to get an overview of the field.

The page is organized as follows:

  • latest news in mesh generation
  • people and research groups
  • upcoming conferences
  • literature
  • software
  • open positions
  • information on related topics

    • Click here to see the latest updates (there is also an archive page).

    Research on mesh generation is abundant, and I don't claim to give a complete overview. In order make this page a useful service for the mesh generation community, I need help from other people. So if you are interested in getting put on the list, or if you have any comments or hints on other sources of information on mesh generation in the net, please send me an email (robert@feanor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de).

    A valuable source of information is the Meshing Research Corner, a comprehensive database with literature on mesh generation. It is maintained by Steve Owen.

    I have also started with an alphabetically ordered list of people working on mesh generation.

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    Latest news in mesh generation:

  • Information on the 6th International Meshing Roundtable, October 13-15, 1997, Park City, Utah, is available online. Paper submission deadline is June 13.

  • Mesh2d and mesh3d, programs for triangular / tetrahedral mesh generation from Bilge Kaan Karamete, are available on the net.

  • There are new open positions for people with experience in mesh generation.

  • Bojan Niceno has announced his two-dimensional quality mesh generator Easymesh (generation of constrained Delaunay triangulations).

  • Mark Filipiak's technology watch report on mesh generation is available online (html, postscript).

  • Donald Hawken has announced a new version of the UGRID grid generator for 2D Euler or Navier-Stokes simulations. Demo software and a free grid-generating screen saver are available.

  • NASA's steering committee for surface modeling and grid generation has started to build a testcase library for surface modeling and grid generation.

  • QMG1.1, the new version of Stephen Vavasis' surface and volumetric grid generator, is available on the net.

  • The last issue of the Springer journal "Engineering with Computers" is all on mesh generation.

  • The proceedings of the 5th International Mesh Generation Roundtable and Conference 96, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (1996), are available online.

  • The NSF wants to close the Geometry Center in Minneapolis; they are looking for support.

  • Version 1.3 of Jonathan Chewchuk's 2D delaunay mesh generator Triangle is now available on netlib.

    • Latest news | Top | Conferences

    Research in mesh generation:

    Countries | Topics | Applications

    By Countries:

  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hongkong
  • India
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom
  • USA

    • Topics:

  • Unstructured hex meshes: Hex>
  • Tetrahedral element meshes: Tet>
  • Quadrilateral element meshes: Qua>
  • Structured grids: Str>
  • Surface meshes: Sur>
  • Parallel mesh generation: Par>
  • Mesh refinement: Ref>
  • Delaunay triangulation: Del>
  • Advancing front: Adv>
  • Octree: Oct>
  • AI methods: AI>
  • Theoretical foundations: The>

    • Application areas:

  • CFD: CFD>
  • Computational medicine: Cme>
  • Metal forming: Met>
  • Microelectronics: Mic>
  • Groundwater flow: Grw>
  • Aerodynamics: Aer>
  • Mechanical engineering: Me>
  • CAD-CAM integration: Cad>
  • Electrical engineering: Ee>
  • Coastal engineering: Ce>
  • Geotechnical problems: Geo>
  • Computer graphics: Cg>

    • Argentina:

  • Pablo Daniel Zavattieri, CML, Centro Atomico Bariloche, works on algorithms for the generation and optimisation of tetrahedral element meshesc and on computational geometry applications to fem pre/post-processing . Tet>

    • Australia:

  • Dave Watson, UWA Perth, is a specialist for Delaunay triangulations. Del> The>

    • Austria:

  • Research at biofluid dynamics group, TU Graz: grid generation for the simulation of blood flow in arterial bifurcations. CFD> Cme>

  • Ernst Leitner, Helmut Puchner and Peter Fleischmann, Insitute for microelectronics, TU Wien, do research in grid generation for process simulations. Mic>< Del> Tet>

  • Joachim Schöberl and Gundolf Haase, department of numerical mathematics and optimization (University of Linz), works on advancing front mesh generators in 2D and 3D (triangles/tetrahedra). Tet> Adv>

  • Heidrun Kirchweger, department of mechanics, TU Graz: her thesis is on the generation of contour-adapted grids for cfd simulations. CFD>

    • Belgium:

  • The research interests of Herman Deconinck (VKI) include hybrid and unstructured grid generation for CFD; his coworker is Jean-Christophe Carette. CFD> Tet>

  • Stefan Lecho, CEG, VUB Brussels, works on grid generation for computational electrochemistry. Adv>

    • Brazil:

  • The research interests of of Jose Augusto Pereira Brito, LCG, University of Rio de Janeiro, include finite elements and mesh generation. Cad>

  • TecGraf, computer science department, PUC Rio: three-dimensional mesh generation. Tet>

  • Julio R. Meneghini, deparment of mechanical engineering, University of Sao Paolo, works on unstructured mesh generation.

  • Computer graphics laboratory, department for civil engineering (PUC Rio de Janeiro): Surface mesh generation. Sur>

  • Fabio Hochleitner, Mechanical Engineering, PUC Rio de Janeiro, works on numerical grid generation for computational fluid dynamcis. CFD> Aer>

    • Canada:

  • Barry Joe of the University of Alberta has written the GEOMPACK package (generation of tetrahedral element meshes) and is also investigating algorithms for the generation of hexadral or hexahedral-dominant meshes. Tet> Hex>

  • Robin Wilson, University of Toronto, does the mesh generation job in the rock engineering group (advancing front method for triangles, tetrahedrons, quadrilaterals and hexahedrons). Adv> Geo>

  • Paul Lalonde, University of British Columbia, works on adaptive discretization for progressive radiosity. Sur> Cg>

  • Hamid Sharifi at Universite Laval, departement informatique, works on grid generation with modified quadtree/octree technique. Oct>

  • Bruce Simpson, Scicom, University of Waterloo, is interested in scientific computing and mesh generation. Adv>

    • Chile:

  • Maria Cecilia Rivara's and Maurizio Palma Lizana's research interests include tetrahederal mesh generation and mesh refinement (DCC, University of Chile). Tet> Ref>

    • Czech Republic:

  • Daniel Rypl, department of structural mechanics, Technical University of Prague, works on surface meshing algorithms. Sur> Adv>

    • Denmark:

  • Anders Schmidt Kristensen, Institut for Mechanical Engineering, Aalborg University, works on adaptive mesh generation for structural optimisation of mechanical parts. Tet> Me> Cad>

  • Jens Hugger, institute for the mathematical sciences, University of Copenhagen, has specialized on error estimation and adaptive mesh generation. Ref>

    • Finland:

  • Kimmo Forsman, Laboratory of Electricity and Magnetism, Tampere University of Technology, works on tetrahedral mesh generation for computational electromagnetics. Tet> Ee>

  • Jouni Ikaeheimo, Material Physics Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology: adaptive mesh generation for electromagnetic field computation. Ee>

  • Harri Hakula does the mesh generation job in the ELMER project. Tet> CFD>

  • David Kornman, Stonesoft Oy, works on dynamic constrained Delaunay triangulation as a hobby. Del>

    • France:

  • At INRIA Paul-Louis George and Frederic Hecht are working on the GAMMA project: generation of triangular and tetrahedral element meshes (Delaunay-Voronoi-Method). Tet> Del> Adv> Sur> Hex> Cad>

  • Philippe Dewagenaere and Bernard Péroche, department SIMADE, Ecole des Mines, work on adaptive Delaunay triangulations for digital terrain modeling. Del> Geo>

  • Thierry Coupez, Materials processing center, CEMEF, works on meshing and remeshing algorithms. Tet> Met>

  • Joel Conraud, CRIN Nancy, does the mesh generation job in the GOCAD project. Tet> Grw>

  • Michael Rucki works on adaptive mesh generation for the OOFE program at Ecole Centrale de Paris. Tet> Del>

  • Mesh generation research at Electricite de France: tetrahedral element meshes (generation/refinement, contact Nicolas Gerald, service IMA). Tet> Ref>

  • Laurent Remondini, soils, solids, structures laboratory, Grenoble, works on mesh generation in an integrated design environment. Cad>

  • Jens-Dominik Müller does the mesh generation job in the CERFACS cfd group. CFD> Aer>

  • Meshing research at CAOR: Valerie Mounoury works on hex meshing by semantical analysis, Olivier Stab works on tet meshing by boolean operations. Tet> Hex>

    • Germany:

  • Eberhard Bänsch and Kunibert Siebert at Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, are working on refinement algorithms for 2D and 3D meshes. Ref>

  • Ralf Diekmann and Friedhelm Neugebauer at the University of Paderborn do research in parallel mesh generation. Par> Tet>

  • The Scientific Parallel Computing (SPC) group at TU Chemnitz works on anisotropic finite element discretizations. Par> Tet> Ref>

  • At the Institut für Entwurfsaerodymanik of the DLR in Brunswick there is a group working on interactive multiblock elliptic grid generation. Str> CFD> Aer>

  • Ansgar Halfmann at the Fakultät Bauwesen, Universität Dortmund, works on the generation of quadrilateral element meshes on curved surfaces (click here for more information). Sur> Qua>

  • Matthias Müller-Hannemann and Prof. Rolf Möhring at TU Berlin, together with Karsten Weihe (Universität Konstanz): Generation of surface meshes (quadrilaterals). Sur> Qua>

  • At the Weierstrass-Institut in Berlin Ilja Schmelzer has developed the intersection based grid generator IBG for the generation of triangular and tetrahedral element meshes. Tet> Oct>

  • Robert Schneiders, Frank Weiler and Irmgard Dittrich of the Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Mathematik, insbesondere Informatik at the RWTH Aachen, are doing research in quadrilateral and hexahedral element mesh generation, mesh refinement, remeshing and applications in metal forming simulation. Qua> Hex> Ref> Met> Oct>

  • At the Mathematisches Institut A, Universität Stuttgart) Dietrich Nowottny works on hex meshing and advancing front techniques; Alexander Fuchs is interested in the optimization of Delaunay triangulations. Qua> Cg> Hex> Del> Adv>

  • Harald Kasper and Thomas Rother, Institute for Fluid Mechanics, University of Hannover, work on mesh generation for the ROCKFLOW groundwater simulation package. Qua> Hex> Grw>

  • Detlev Stalling at ZIB, Berlin, works on the generation of tetrahedral element meshes for hyperthermia simulations. Tet> Del> Cme>

  • Wolfgang Hoffmann, Dirk Feuchter and Lei Zhang, ICA III, University of Stuttgart, do research on grid generation, grid coarsening and hex meshing (advancing front approach). Adv> Cad> Hex>

  • Christoph Tapp, AM1, University of Erlangen, works on mesh generation for the simulation of groundwater flow. Grw>

  • Lutz Jänicke, TU Cottbus, works on the generation of tetrahedral element meshes for the simulation of electromagnetics. Tet> Ee>

  • Olaf Horstmann and Frank Molkenthin, Institut für Bauinformatik, TU Cottbus, work on grid generation for coastal engineering. Ce>

  • Elke Wilczok and Ingo Eichenseher at LAA (Munich University) work on 2D- and 3D-triangulation algorithms. Tet>

  • Martin Franzke, IBF, RWTH Aachen, develops the PEP+ preprocessor (mesh generation for the simulation of metal forming processes). Met>

  • Jürgen Bey, University of Tübingen, works on refinement algorithms for tetrahedral element meshes. Ref>

  • Research at GRIS, TU Darmstadt: Mesh generation for computational medicine. Cme>

  • Andreas Wick and Leiping Xue, HFI, TU Berlin, are interested in grid generation for cfd. CFD> Str>

  • Jackson Roehrig, Theorie der Tragwerke und Simulationstechnik, University of Bochum, works on mesh generation for the simulation of groundwater flow. Grw> Tet>

  • Rene Ziegler, Insitut für Baustatik, University of Karlsruhe, works on optimisation of mesh generation for finite element methods.

  • Norbert Köckler, faculty of mathematics, University of Paderborn, is interested in numerical grid generation. The>

  • Christiane Röhl, department of turbomachinery, University of Duisburg, together with Heribert Simon, works on unstructured grid generation for flow simulation in turbomachines. Tet> Adv> Str> CFD>

  • Research at IVG, University of Duisburg (Roland Vilsmeier): Generation of triangular and tetrahedral element meshes for cfd. Tet> CFD>

  • Reinhard Klein, Jörg Krämer and Tobias Hüttner, WSI-GRIS, University of Tübingen, do research in 2D and 3D Delaunay algorithms and surface mesh generation. Gunter Liebich works on mesh simplification (polygonal simplification) of arbitrary triangle meshes with error control and on isosurface generation from CT data. Del> Sur> Cg> Cme>

  • InGrid is a project on interactive grid generation at IIT, FH Karlsruhe.

  • Peter Gert Wehner, Institute of Mechanics, University of Magdeburg, works on mesh generation and cad/fem-integration. Cad>

  • Research at manufacturing laboratory, Uni BW Hamburg: 2D and 3D remeshing methods for the simulation of metal forming processes (quadrilaterals / hexahedra). Hex> Met>

  • Frank Sellerhoff, Institut für Bauinformatik, University of Hannover, works on Delaunay meshing with application in civil engineering. Del>

  • Research in numerical mathematics and scientific computing, TU Cottbus: Guntram Berti investigates the possibilities of bridging the gap between geometric modeling and grid generation for numerical simulation. Cad>

  • Rolf Kösters and Jakobus Meinen, IFUM (University of Hannover) work on mesh generation for the simulation of metal forming processes. Tet> Sur> Met>

    • Greece:

  • George Iliadis, Lambros Rorris and Stelios Seitanis, University of Thessaloniki, work on the GAMAG triangular mesh generator. Ce>

    • Hongkong:

  • Research at department of mathematics, Hongkong Baptist University, is on automatic grid generation techniques for arbitrary domains using quadrilateral or triangle meshes. Applications include the tidal analysis of harbors and computer aided geometric design Ce>

    • India:

  • At the aerospace engineering department of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay the IITBZeus system with semi-automatic mesh generation capabilites has been developed. CFD> Aer>

    • Israel:

  • Alla Sheffer and Michel Bercovier, CAD Lab, Hebrew University, work on mesh generation and solid modeling. Cad>

  • Dani Lischinski, Institute of Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, works on mesh generation and robust triangulation with application in computer graphics, visualization and scientific computing. Del> Sur> Cg>

    • Italy:

  • Luca Formaggia at CRS, Applied Math Group in Cagliari works on 2D and 3D unstructured mesh generation (triangles, tetrahedra). Tet> CFD> Aer>

  • Andrea Piacentini and Maurizio Paolini (Department of Mathematics, University of Milano): mesh generation in 2D and 3D with the advancing front method. Tet> Adv>

  • Stefano Paoletti (IBM ECSEC, Rome) works on the engAGE multiblock grid generation system. Str> CFD>

  • The CIRA CFD group does research on structured grid generation for computational aerodynamics. Str> CFD> Aer>

  • Mesh generation at DINMA, University of Trieste: Easymesh, generation of constrained Delaunay triangulations with quality control.

    • Japan:

  • Resarch at 5th Lab, Mathematical Engineering, University of Tokio, includes mesh generation for finite element methods. Tet> Del>

  • Hideki Nagai, FML, University of Tokyo, works on automatic adaptive mesh generation. Adv>

  • Kenjiro T. Miura, Department of Computer Software, University of Aizu, is interested in auto mesh generation and CAD/CAM. Par> Cad>

  • Kono Yoichi, Parallel Processing Group, Muruoka Lab at Waseda University, works on parallel mesh generation. Par> Del>

  • Research at Laboratory for 3-D Electric and Magnetic Field Analysis, Okayama University, includes mesh generation. Ee>

  • Yasumi Kawamura, NAOE, works on mesh generation for the analysis of ship structural designs. Adv> Qua> Cad>

  • Meshing research at IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory's graphics group: Bubble mesh generation. Qua> Sur>

    • Korea:

  • Kunwoo Lee at CADAL, Seoul National University: mesh generation for the simulation of metal forming processes; Sangkun Park works on multiblock-structured grid generation. Tet> Str> Met> Oct> Sur> CFD>

  • Chang-Hwai Ahn, Electrical Engineering, Soeul National University, is interested in mesh generation for computational electromagnetics. Ee> AI>

  • Kun-Hui Yi, POSTECH, Kyunhuk, is interested in finite element mesh generation for electronic device simulation. Mic>

    • Netherlands:

  • Paul Zegeling (Utrecht University) works on moving grid methods. The>

  • Brian H. Gilding's research interests include numerical grid generation (mathematics department, University of Twente).

  • Stefan Spekreijse, National Aerospace Laboratory, works on structured grid generation for aerospace applications. CFD> Str> Aer>

    • New Zealand:

  • Martin Glanville's thesis is on automatic mesh generation and improvement schemes for the finite element method in two and three dimensions (department of mathematics, University of Waikato). Tet> The>

  • Nicolas Smith, bioengineering research group, Universtiy of Auckland, works on oxygen transport in cardiac tissue, Coronray mesh generation, and modeling of vessel hemodynamics. Cme>

    • Norway:

  • The SINTEF industrial mathematics group in Oslo does research on grid generation.

    • Poland:

  • Przemek Przybylski, computational mechanics division, University of Cracow, is engaged in an analysis and implementation of mesh generation algorithms.

    • Romania:

  • Tiberiu Chelcea, NML, Politehnica University of Bucharest, works on automated mesh generation.

    • Russia:

  • Sergey Ivanenko (sivan@ccas.ru), Russian Academy of Sciences, does research in structured grid generation. Str>

  • The group of A.F. Sidorov (afsid@imm.e-burg.su) at the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Ekaterinburg, works on 2d and 3d mesh generation. Str> Tet>

  • The research group of S.K. Godunov (Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk, e-mail: godunov@math.nsk.su) works on algorithms for the generation of structured grids. Str>

  • V.B. Barakhnin and G.S. Khakimzyanov (Institute of Computational Technologies, Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk, e-mail: chubarov@ict.nsk.su) work on structured adaptive grid generation and the application to the problems of shallow water. Str> Ce>

  • G.P. Prokopov (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, DICEA, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) and his group do research on structured grids. Unfortunately he doesn't have e-mail. If you wish to contact him, try to contact through Sergej Ivanenko (sivan@ccas.ru). Str>

  • V.F. Tishkin (DICEA Institute of Mathematical Modelling of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, tishkin@imamod.msk.su) works on unstructured grids. In his institute there are many researchers in the field of grid generation.

  • Yu.D. Shevelev (Institute for Computer Aided Design, RAS); e-mail of the institute: icad@inapro.msk.su

  • A.M. Sorokin (Central Institute of Hydrodynamics Moscow, chuchu@ccas.ru) works on algorithms for the generation of unstructured grids.

  • V.M. Uskov (Central Institute of Hydrodynamics Moscow) is interested in adaptive structured grids. Str>

  • Vladimir Liseikin (liseikin@ict.nsk.su), Institute of Computational Technologies, Novossibirsk, works on structured adaptive grid generation methods. Str>

  • I.D. Sofronow, All-Russia Scientific-Research Institute of Experimental Physics (Arzamas-16), works on grid generation.

  • V.F. Kuropatenko, All-Russia Scientific-Research Institute of Technical Physics (Chelyabinsk-70) does research in grid generation.

    • Slovenia:

  • Bojan Dola, LATES, University of Maribor, works on artificial intelligence methods in finite element mesh design. AI> Cad>

    • Spain:

  • The ERCOFTAC spanish pilot center at CIMNE coordinates the ERCOFTAC special interest group on grid generation and adaptivity. CFD>

    • Sweden:

  • Anders Petterson, division of hydromechanics, Chalmers University, developes the Chalmesh overlapping grid generator. Str> CFD>

  • Research on computational aerodynamics methods at FFA, Stockholm, is on multiblock-structured 3D grid generation and 2D/3D unstructured grid generation. Str> Tet> CFD> Aer>

    • Switzerland:

  • At the Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zürich, research is done on mesh generation for semiconductor device simulation. Tet> Del> Mic>

  • Mesh generation research at IMHEF (EPFL): 3D mesh generation for hydraulic machinery (HAMAC). CFD> Str>

    • Taiwan:

  • The research interests of Min-Bin Chen and Cherng-Yeu Shen, National Taiwan University, include finite element mesh generation.

  • Shi-Min Lee, department of aerospace engineering, University of Tamkang, does research in grid generation and CFD. CFD> Aer>

    • Turkey:

  • A. Erman Tekkaya and S. Kavakli, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, work on hexahedral element mesh generation for use in the simulation of metal forming processes. Hex> Met>

  • The grid generation group of ADTG at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, is specialized on grid generation for the simulation of flow in gas turbines. CFD> Aer> Str>

  • Bilge Kaan Karamete, Department of Engineering Sciences, Middle East Technical University, works on triangular and tetrahedral mesh generation and partitioning. Tet> Del> Adv>

    • United Kingdom:

  • Ke Chen, DSCM, University of Liverpool, works on adaptive mesh generation (quadrilateral element meshes). Qua>

  • QUB finite element group at Queen's University of Belfast: Medial axis, medial surfaces and hex meshing. Qua> Hex> Cad>

  • The group of Nigel Weatherill at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales at Swansea, is working on the generation of unstructured tetrahedral element meshes for CFD applications. CFD> Aer> Tet> Del>

  • Amir Sharif, Brunel University, CNES, and Robert Ettinger work on AI methods for finite element mesh generation. AI>

  • Scott Sloan, Department of Civil Engineering & Surveying, University of Newcastle, works on Delaunay-based mesh generation for geotechnical applications. Del> Geo>

  • Adrian Bowyer, University of Bath, has done basic research on Delaunay triangulation techniques. Del>

  • Malcolm Sabin's research interest include hex meshing. Hex> Cad>

  • John Ashby, mathematical software group, CCLRC, works on three dimensional adaptive mesh generation for the IDENTIFY project. Tet> CFD> Par>

  • Research at Medical Physics, University College of London: mesh generation for the TOAST system (solving the forward and inverse problems in optical tomography). Cme>

  • P.K. Sweby, University of Reading, department of mathematics, is interested in grid generation and adaptation.

  • E.J. Probert, staff member at EBMS, University of Swansea: Research interests include unstructured mesh generation and applied mathematical modelling.

    • USA:

  • Ted Blacker at FDI works on the generation of hexahedral element meshes. Hex> Adv> CFD>

  • The CUBIT mesh generation project uses an advancing front approach for hex meshing (plastering algorithm). There is a group at SANDIA (Albuquerque) and at BYU. Qua> Adv> Hex>

  • The national grid generation project at the NSF Engineering Research Center, MSU: generation of structured and unstructured 3D grids (Grid Generation Thrust). Str> CFD> Tet> Aer>

  • Research at the University of Wisconsin: Generation of hexahedral meshes from solid models. Hex>

  • The Geometry Laboratory (GEOLAB) at NASA Langley Research Center works on the generation of surface and volume grids around aerospace configurations. Str> CFD> Sur> Aer>

  • Jaime Peraire (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT): Generation of unstructured tetrahedral element meshes for CFD applications. CFD> Tet> Aer>

  • Click here for a description of the mesh generation and refinement algorithms developed for the SUMAA 3D project. Sur> Tet> Ref> Par>

  • Jonathan Shewchuk's quality mesh generator Triangle is available on the net (2D-Delaunay). At the moment he works on the 3D-successor pyramid. Tet> Del>

  • Cray Research developes the HEXAR system for the generation of hexahedral element meshes. Hex> Par>

  • The GRIDGEN grid generator for CFD applications is available from Pointwise Inc. Str> CFD> Aer>

  • The 3DMAGGS Three-Dimensional Multi-block Advanced Grid Generation System is developed at NASA Langley Research Center. Str> CFD> Aer>

  • Research at Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory is done on 3D mesh generation for groundwater modeling (mixed element meshes, FEMWATER). Grw>

  • The PMESH massively parallel mesh generator which is developed at Lawrence Livermoore National Laboratory uses a multiblock approach for the generation of very large hexahedral element meshes. Par> Str>

  • The MESH system for triangulated mesh approximations of minimal surfaces ist developed at the Center for Geometry Analysis Numerics and Graphics (GANG). Sur> Cg>

  • ACE Lab, University of Texas at Austin: hybrid grid generation for aerospace applications. Tet> CFD> Aer>

  • Hwagyu Kim (department of mechanical engineering, University of Texas at Arlington): Mesh generation, cad/cam and solid modeling Tet> Cad>

  • Po-Ting Wu (Purdue University) works on parallel adaptive mesh generation. Par> Qua>

  • Tao Chen at Stanford University is working on automatic 3D mesh generation for process and device simulation (TCAD). Tet> Oct> Mic>

  • Rainald Löhner ( CFD Laboratory, George Mason University) works on 2D and 3D advancing-front-algorithms for the generation of tetrahedral element meshes. Tet> Adv> Par> CFD>

  • Andrew Johnson at AHPCRC is working on the parallel generation of tetrahedral element meshes. Tet> Del> Par> CFD> Aer>

  • The SCI research group at the University of Utah works on mesh generation and refinement for computational medicine. Tet> Del> Ref> Cme>

  • Paul Heckbert and Frank Bossen at Carnegie Mellon University work on mesh generation in the computer graphics field (radiosity and object rendering). Sur> Del> Cg>

  • David Eppstein, UC Irvine, computational geometry specialist, works on theoretical foundations of mesh generation. The>

  • Seong Y. Park and Kamyar Haghighi at Purdue University work on 3D mesh generation (tetrahedra). Tet> AI>

  • Isabel Beichl and Francis Sullivan at NIST ACMD do research in parallel Delaunay triangulation algorithms. Par> Del>

  • Mark Shephard at SCOREC (RPI) developes the finite octree mesh generator. Sur> Tet> Par> Oct> Me>

  • Jan Cervenka (University of Colorado) works on the PreMerlin mesh generation package for the simulation of fracture mechanics. Tet> Geo>

  • Steven Benzley's (Department of Civil Engineering, Brigham Young University) research interests include finite element mesh generation. Hex> Qua>

  • Brad Barber of Cambridge, MA maintains the Qhull software for computing convex hulls, Delaunay triangulations, Voronoi vertices, and halfspace intersections in general dimension. Qhull handles numeric precision problems by merging facets. Tet> Del>

  • Tsung-Pao Fang and Les Piegl, University of South Florida, work an triangulation algorithms. Del>

  • Timothy Baker, MAE, Princeton University, works on tetrahedral element mesh generation for cfd applications. Tet> CFD> Aer>

  • Research at MIT Cadlab : Bubble mesh generation and meitotic cell division. Tet>

  • Carl W. Gable, EES-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory, works on the X3D unstructured finite element mesh generation for porous flow modeling. Tet> Del> Grw>

  • Peter Krysl, Northwestern University, works on surface mesh generation. Sur> Adv>

  • Mesh generation research in the AHE project at Telecommunications Research Center, Arizona State University. Ee>

  • Mesh generation is a part of the CEM project (computational electromagnetics simulation system) at NSF Engineering Research Center, MSU. Ee> Str>

  • The ACE/gredit semi-automatic grid generator is developed at the Center for Coastal & Land-Margin Research, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, for use in coastal engineering. Ce> Del>

  • Ki Dong Lee, CFD Laboratory, UIUC, works on multiblock grid generation. Str> CFD> Aer>

  • Richard Hindman is very engaged in teaching (click here for a description of his course on mesh generation).

  • George Turkiyyah, Mark A. Ganter and Duane W. Storti, University of Washington, work on skeleton-based hexahedral element mesh generation. Hex>

  • Hao Chen works on the quadrilateral and hexahedral mesh generation based on 1D and 2D skeletons (project description). Hex>

  • Jing Ling does the mesh generation job at Well Logging Laboratory, University of Houston. Ee>

  • Renato Perucchio, University of Rochester, is interested in mesh generation, finite elements and computational geometry. Cad> Cme>

  • Shahyar Pirzadeh, NASA Langley Research Center, works on the VGRID tetrahedral element mesh generator and on the TetrUSS package of unstructured grid codes (August 6, 1996). Tet> CFD> Adv>

  • Pradeep Seetharam, MAE, University of Texas at Arlington, is interested in error estimation and adaptive mesh generation.

  • Finite element mesh generation at Colorado State University: Advancing front graded quadrilateral and hexahedral meshing. Qua> Hex> Adv>

  • Rajesh Amara, department of mechanical engineering, Oregon State University, works on the FEMAGE finite element mesh generator.

  • Sheng-Hua Teng's research interests include parallel mesh generation (department of computer science, University of Minnesota). Par> Del>

  • Jason Degraw, department of mechanical engineering, University of Houston, works on mesh generation for cfd applications. CFD>

  • The Numerical Analysis and Parallel Computing Cell at Los Alamos National Laboratory works on overlapping grid methods. CFD> Str>

  • Milind Nanal, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, has done some work on unstructured 2D meshing. Del> Qua> Tet>

  • Robert Rainsberger and Trent Eggleston, XYZ Corpotation, develope the Truegrid mesh generator. Str>

  • Bonita V. Saunders, NIST ACMD, works on boundary-fitted grid generation. Str>

  • Shishir Pandya, Dept. of Mech. and Aero Eng., UC Davis, works on the generation of prismatic grids for complex aircraft-like configurations. CFD> Aer>

  • Dave Banks , Dept. of Mech. and Aero Eng., UC Davis, works on adaptive remeshing for strucutred grids and hybrid structured/unstructured grid generation. Str> CFD> Aer>

  • Eric F. Charlton's thesis is on octree-based grid generation (CFD group, University of Michigan). Oct> CFD>

  • Godofredo Camacho, computational mechanics group at CALTECH, works on tet meshing for metal forming simulations. Tet> Met>

  • Robert W. Walters, Virginia Tech Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, does research on unstructured algorithm and grid generation technology. Tet> CFD> Aer>

  • William Connett and Wojciech Golik at the mathematics and computer science department, UM-St. Louis, are interested in grid generation. The>

  • Sam Linton, NASA AMES biocomputation center, does the grid generation job in the ROSS and the virtual environment for reconstructive surgery project. Cme>

  • Michael A. Logan, NAS at NASA AMES, works on the standardization of data exchange between CFD and CAD systems. Cad>

  • Meshing research at ASE/EM, University of Texas at Austin: Graham Carey (CFD Lab), John Kallinderis (ACE Lab) and John Eaton (TICAM). CFD> Tet>

  • Ramandra Kr. Sahoo, process modeling laboratory, SUNY at Stony Brook, is interested in multizone grid generation for phase change problems. Mic>

  • The Computational Fluid Dynamics Branch at NASA Lewis Research Center: does research on surface modeling and grid generation. CFD> Del>

  • Jin Chou, NASA NAS, works Superpatch system (generation of structured surface grids). Sur> Str>

  • Michael Chiu's research interest is in mesh generation for problems of computational plasticity (CSML, Berkeley). Met>

  • William M. Chan, Gregory J. Wilson and John A. Ekaterinaris work on grid generation for cfd at ELORET, Palo Alto, CA. CFD> Aer>

  • Rajiv A. Nambiar's research interests include mesh generation and CAD/CAM integration (engineering department, Panamerican University). Cad> Me>

  • Patrick Knupp and Stanly Steinberg, mathematics department, University of New Mexico, are interested in the mathematical foundations of structured grid generation. The> Str>

  • Grid generation at NASA: NASA's steering committee for surface modeling and grid generation. Cad>

  • Ernst-Peter Mücke, now with ANSYS Inc., works on 3D robust Delaunay triangulations. Del>

  • Alan M. Shih, now with ESI Inc., works on the TIGER Turbomachinery Interactive Grid genERation system. Str> CFD>

  • Dafna Talmor, PhD student at the CMU school of computer science, works on 3D mesh generation with quality guarantees (tentative thesis title: Well spaced points and numerical methods). Del> Tet> Par> The>

  • Grid generation at ACRI, Cornell University: Paul Chew (guaranteed quality mesh generation), Nikos Chrisochoides (parallel grid generation) and Steve Vavasis (QMG). Tet> Sur> Oct> Del> Par> The>

  • Kenji Shimada, CIEL at CMU, works on the integration of design and analysis. Tet> Sur> Cad> Met>

  • Martin Held, department of applied mathematics and statistics, SUNY, uses conforming mesh generation for collision detection in VR. Tet> Del> Cg>

  • Joaquim Calvacante, Cornell fracture group, is interested in three dimensional mesh generation for the simulation of arbitrary crack propagation in engineered and natural structures. Tet> Me> Geo>

  • Krishnan Ramaswami, design division, ME department at Stanford University, works on midplane mesh generation for flow analysis. Cad>

  • Hao Shi, department of electrical engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla, works on numerical em modeling and mesh generation. Ee>

  • Shoichiro Nakamura, Ohio State University, department of mechanical engineering, is interested in computational simulation of flow problems and grid generation. Str> CFD> Aer> Cme>

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    Conference announcements:

  • Workshop on Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Grid Methods, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, March 12-13, 1997.

  • First Euro Conference on parallel and distributed computing for computational mechanics, Lochinver, Highlands of Scotland, 26th April - 1st May, 1997.

  • The IMA Program Mathematics in High Performance Computing includes a workshop on grid generation and adaptive algorithms (April 28 - May 2, 1997, Minneapolis).

  • Solid Modeling '97, FOURTH ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON SOLID MODELING AND APPLICATIONS. Atlanta, Georgia, May 14-16, 1997

  • There is a special symposium on trends in unstructured mesh generation at the McNU '97 Joint ASME/ASCE/SES Summer Meeting, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June 29 - July 2, 1997

  • The 13th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, June 29-July 2, 1997 in Snowmass, CO, has a session on grid generation and geometry definition for complex configurations.

  • The IMACS world congress on scientific computation, modeling and applied mathematics, Berlin, Germany, August 24-29, has a special session on numerical grid generation technologies for advanced simulations.

  • Summerschool on data structures and grid generation, September 8-12, 1997 (part of the Harburger Sommerschulen series of summerschools on numerical software).

  • The II PanAmerican Workshop in Applied and Computational Mathematics, September 8-12, 1997, Serrano, Gramado, Brazil, includes a minisymposium on grid generation and discretization methods.

  • 6th International Meshing Roundtable, October 13-15, 1997, Park City, Utah

  • Fourth World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 29 June - 2 July, 1998.

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    Literature on mesh generation:

  • Mark Filipiak: Technology watch report on mesh generation. EPCC, Edinburgh, 1996. html, postscript

  • Engineering with Computers, Vol. 12: Special Issue on Mesh Generation. Springer (1996)

  • Online proceedings 5th International Mesh Generation Roundtable and Conference 96, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (1996)

  • Proceedings NUMIGRID 96, Eds. B.K. Soni, J.F. Thompson, J. Haeuser and P. Eiseman, ISBN 0-9651627-0-2 (1996)

  • Automatic finite element mesh generation for industrial use. VTT Research Notes 1707, Eds. Joachim Wendt and Anu Piira, ISBN 951-38-4862-0 (1995)

  • Computer Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 12 (7): Special Issue on Grid Generation, Finite Elements, and Geometric Design. Editors: B. Hamann and R.F. Sarraga (1995)

  • Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Meshing Roundtable. Sandia National Laboratories (1995)

  • Modeling, Mesh Generation, and Adaptive Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations . IMA Volume 75, Eds. I. Babuska, J.E. Flaherty, J.E. Hopcroft, W.D. Henshaw, J.E. Oliger and T. Tezduyar (1995)

  • Steve Owen maintains the Meshing Research Corner, a comprehensive database with literature on mesh generation.

  • Surface Modeling, Grid Generation, and Related Issues in Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Solutions. Proceedings NASA-conference, Cleveland, Ohio (1995), NASA CP-3291

  • VKI Lecture Series 1994-2 (Grid Generation), Ed. N.P. Weatherhill (1994)

  • Patrick Knupp and Stanley Steinberg: Fundamentals of Grid Generation. CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-8987-9 (1994)

  • Proc. International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Related Fields. Eds.: N.P. Weatherhill, P.R. Eiseman, J. Haeuser and J.F. Thompson. Pineridge Press (1994)

  • T. Taniguchi: Automatic mesh generation for FEM - Application of Delaunay triangulation. Morikita Publishing Co., Tokyo, Japan (1992) (in japanese)

  • Marshall Bern and David Eppstein: Mesh Generation and Optimal Triangulation, pp. 23-90 of Computing in Euclidean Geometry, Ding-Zhu Du and Frank Hwang (editors), World Scientific, Singapore (1992); bibtex references and an online bibliography are available.

  • R.E. Smith (Ed.): Software Systems for Surface Modeling and Grid Generation. Proceedings NASA-conference, Hampton, Virginia (1992), NASA CP 3143

  • Jose E. Castillo (Ed.): Mathematical aspects of numerical grid generation. Edited by SIAM, ISBN 0-89871-267-X (1991)

  • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 32: Special Issue on Adaptive Meshing. Editors: M.S. Shephard, N.P. Weatherhill (1991)

  • Paul-Louis George: Automatic mesh generation: Applications to Finite Element Methods. John Wiley (1991)

  • Advances in Engineering Software, Vol. 13: Special issue on automatic mesh generation. Editor: C.G. Armstrong (1991)

  • Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Related Fields, Eds. A.S. Arcilla, J. Haeuser, P.R. Eiseman and J.F. Thompson. Proceedings of the Third International Conference, Barcelona, Spain (1991)

  • Applications of Mesh Generation to Complex 3-D Configurations. AGARD Conference Proceedings, AGARD-CP-464. ISBN 92-835-0551-4 (1990)

  • Engineering with Computers, Vol. 5: Specials issue on automated engineering analysis modeling. Editor: M.S. Shephard (1989)

  • J.F. Thompson, Z.U.A. Warsi,, C.W. Mastin: Numerical grid generation, foundations and applications. North Holland (1985)

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    Software:

    Public domain | Commercial | Other sources of interest

    Classification:

  • Triangular: Tri>
  • Quadrilateral: Qua>
  • Tetrahedral: Tet>
  • Unstructured hexadral: Hex>
  • 2D structured: 2str><
  • 3D structured: 3str>
  • Surface meshes: Sur>

  • A list of public domain and university codes:

  • ACE/gredit (CCLMR): semi-automatic finite element grid generator designed to provide effective support to coastal and estuarine research and engineering (2D Delaunay triangulation). Tri>

  • Acronem (Larry Holmes): skeleton-based unstructured hex meshing Hex>

  • ADMesh (Anthony D. Martin): a program for processing triangulated solid meshes in STL format. Tri> Sur>

  • AutoMESH (Shiva Sundaram): new automatic and adaptive finite element analysis tool with automatic triangular mesh generation developed for performing finite element analysis inside AutoCAD. Tri>

  • Cart3D (Michael J. Aftosmis): pre-processing tools and mesh generator "cubes" for cartesian mesh generation.

  • CAMINO (Tao Chen): 3D/2D meshing program using a generalized octree/quadtree approach. Tet>

  • Chalmesh (Anders Petterson): A 3D overlapping grid generator. 3str>

  • Chopper (from QUB): unstructured hex meshing for mechanical engineering (medial surface approach). Hex>

  • CSCMDO (from Jamshid Samareh-Abolhassani): A surface modeling and grid generation tool that supports the FELISA and VGRID unstructured grid generation programs. Sur>

  • CUBIT (SANDIA, BYU): a two- and three-dimensional finite element mesh generation tool which is being developed to pursue the goal of robust and unattended mesh generation (quadrilateral and hexahedral element meshes). Qua> Hex>

  • DALI (Harry Kasper, Frank Behrendt and N. Liebisch): pre- and postprocessing for hydrodynamical simulations.

  • DIME (from CALTECH): Distributed Irregular Mesh Environment, a programming environment for creating unstructured triangular meshes and doing calculations on the mesh. Tri>

  • EAGLEView (from Joe Thompson): interactive surface and grid generation software (unstructured triangular and tetrahedral element meshes). Tri> Tet> Sur>

  • Easymesh (Bojan Niceno): Two-dimensional quality mesh generator, constrained Delaunay triangulations. Tri>

  • FELISA (from NASA LARC): surface and volume triangulation and mesh adaption. Tri> Tet>

  • femmesh (Medical Physics, UCL): a UNIX/OpenWindows program designed to interactively generate 2D FEM meshes composed of 3-noded triangular elements.

  • GAMAG (G. Iliadis): A new, fast and easy-to-use 2D triangular mesh generator, especially desinged to handle complex geometries. Tri>

  • GENIE++ (Bharat Soni): A collection of software packages that GENerate computational grids for Internal-External flow configurations. GENIE++ generates three-dimensional, structured, multi-block grids. 3str>

  • GEN3D (Rainald Loehner): An advancing front mesh generator for the generation of tetrahedral element meshes. Tet>

  • GEOMPACK (Barry Joe): A mathematical software package written in standard Fortran 77 for the GEneration Of 2-D and 3-D triangular/tetrahedral finite element Meshes using GEOMetric algorithms. Tri> Tet>

  • Gridomatic (Dave Banks): 2D hybrid structured/unstructured grid generation. Tri> 2str>

  • gridpak (from IMCS): 2D orthogonal grid generation for coastal engineering. 2str>

  • GridTool (from Jamshid Samareh-Abolhassani): Surface Modeling and Grid Generation Tool. Sur>

  • GRUMMP (Argonne): Generation and refinement of unstructured mixed-element meshes in parallel. Sur> Tri> Tet>

  • HAMAC (J.-D. Reymond): An interactive software package for assisting the mesh generation process, has been developed for CFD applications in the framework of a project involving flow simulation in turbines. 3str>

  • IBG (Ilja Schmelzer): Octree-based triangular and tetrahedral element mesh generation. Tri> Tet>

  • IGRID (Thng Cheok Hoey): A 2D mesh generation program for Windows. 2str>

  • InGrid (IIT): A grid generation tool developed especially for complicated geometries in engineering.

  • MegaCads (DLR Institute for design aerodynamics): Multiblock elliptic grid generation and Computer aided design system. 3str>

  • Meshme (Andrew S. Johnson): An automatic mesh generator in 3D. Uses Delaunay-Voronoi methods to generate a 3D tetrahedral element mesh using the surface mesh as an input. Tet>

  • mesh2d, mesh3d (Bilge Kaan Karamete): Triangular / tetrahedral mesh generators, suitable for parallel implementation. An efficient combination of Delaunay and advancing front methods. Tri> Tet>

  • MG (Luiz Cristovao Gomes Coelho): a system for the generation of 3D finite element meshes with interactive graphics capabilities.

  • ORRIGIN (SELIGER): 2D and 3D structured grid generation. 2str> 3str>

  • PMESH (LLNL): Massively parallel mulbiblock-structured mesh generation. 3str>

  • Preproc (Tiberiu Chelcea): Interactive generation of triangular element meshes. Tri>

  • PRISM (Shishir Pandya): A 3D grid generation code for generating prismatic grids.

  • PSUE (Nigel Weatherhill): Parallel Simulation User Environment with 3D unstructured grid generation. Tet>

  • Qhull (Brad Barber): A general dimension code for computing convex hulls, Delaunay triangulations, Voronoi vertices, and halfspace intersections. Tri>

  • QMG (Stephen Vavasis): Finite element mesh generation in two and three dimensions (triangles/tetrahedra). Tri> Tet> Sur>

  • SCOREC meshing tools (SCOREC): a collection of quadtree-/octree-based mesh generation tools. Tri> Sur> Tet>

  • SimLab (Paul Chew): A tool for creating guaranteed-quality triangulations of planar areas. Tri>

  • SMESH3D (NSRC): An interactive 3D grid generator used by aerospace engineers to generate and edit multiple surface and block grids to be used in CFD solvers. 2str> 3str>

  • Surface95 (Andrew S. Johnson): Automatically generates an unstructured triangular element mesh in 3D on the surface of a geometric model. Sur>

  • Superpatch (Jin Chou): An easy-to-use structured surface grid generation tool. 2str> Sur>

  • TIGER (Alan M. Shih): 3D structured grid generation for general turbomachinery configurations. 3str>

  • TMG (Maurizio Paolini): 2D automatic triangular mesh generator (advancing front). Tri>

  • Triangle (Jonathan Shewchuk): Generates exact, constrained and quality conforming Delaunay triangulations (2D). Tri>

  • TRUMPET (Philip C.E. Jorgensen): TRiangular Unstructured Mesh generator by Point insErTion. Tri>

  • UGRID (Donald Hawken): Rapid generation of smooth unstructured, structured, or hybrid 2D-grids about an airfoil or cylinder. Tri> 2str>

  • VGRID (Shahyar Pirzadeh): A robust, user-friendly computer program for the generation of three-dimensional unstructured (triangular surface and tetrahedral volume) grids in geometrically complex domains. Tri> Tet> Sur>

  • Xcog (Anders Petterson): An interactive 2d overlapping grid generator. 2str>

  • X3D (Los Alamos National Laboratory): A library of user callable tools that provide mesh generation, mesh optimization and dynamic mesh maintenance in three dimensions for a variety of applications. 3str>

  • 3DGRAPE/AL (NASA AMES): A three-dimensional structured multiple-block volume grid generator. 3str>

  • 3DMAGGS (from Stephen J. Alter): An elliptic volume grid generator (multiblock structured grids), used to generate computational domains for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analyses of aerodynamic vehicles. 3str>

  • Companies offering mesh generation software:

  • adapco: samm, a semi automatic hex mesher, and port, a template mesh mapping programm, for application in cfd. Hex>

  • Algor: Houdini, unstructured hex meshing for mechanical engineering and cfd. Hex>

  • Altair: Hypermesh, a high performance finite element pre- and post- processing system for engineering simulation and analysis. Tri> Sur> 3str>

  • ANSYS Inc.: ANSYS/ProFEA allows to analyze and optimize designs directly within Pro/ENGINEER. Tet>

  • Argus Interware Inc.: MeshMaker, 2D triangular and quadrilateral element mesh generation (structured and unstructured) for numerical simulations in computational geosciences. Tri> Qua> 2str>

  • ASC: Powermesh, a comprehensive geometry creation and mesh generation pre-processor designed specifically for CFD applications (multiblock/structured). 3str>

  • AVL: FIRE, blockstructured grid generation for flow and combustion simulation. 3str>

  • CFD research corporation: CFD-GEOM, an interactive CAD type geometry creation and fast grid generation (structured, unstructured and hybrid grids) program. Tet> 3str>

  • Channel Consulting Ltd.: TriGrid is a modelling system for building Triangular Grids. It was originally developed with oceanographic modellers specifically in mind, but is of general utility. Tri>

  • COMCO: TETMESH, surface triangulation in both parameter and physical space, Delaunay tetrahedralization of domain interior (with boundary face enforcement). Sur> Tet>

  • Cray Research: HEXAR, unstructured hex meshing, available for Cray's parallel machines. Hex>

  • CST: MAFIA, a preprocessor for application in electrical engineering. 3str> Tet>

  • DCW Industries Inc.: GridPro/pc2000 is an elliptic, two-dimensional, single block, structured-grid generation and display software package for IBM/PC and compatible computers. 2str>

  • ECGL: FastSEEP constructs 2-D finite element meshes of dams, levees, trenches, or other land forms where seepage occurs.

  • EKK: AMESH, a series of mesh generation tools designed specifically for the casting industry. 3str>

  • EMRC: DISPLAY III, automatic and mapped mesh generation for 2D and 3D geometries using shells and solids (structured and unstructured). Tri> Qua> Sur> Tet>

  • Enterprise Software Products: FEMAP, a finite element preprocessor with 2D surface (triangles/quads) and 3D tet meshing. Tri> Qua> Sur> Tet> 2str>

  • FDI: FIDAP, a cfd code with an integrated preprocessor. 3str>

  • FEGS Ltd.: FAM, a finite element preprocessor with quad and tet automeshing, mapped hex meshing with transition, finite difference auto-meshing and grid blocking and auto-mixed tet and hex meshing. Tri> Qua> Tet> 3str>

  • Fluent Inc: Geomesh, multiblock structured grids and unstructured triangular/tetrahedral grid generation for cfd applications. Tri> 2str> Sur> Tet> 3str>

  • GSSL: Automesh, robust and fast program for generating accurate meshes on 2D complex regions. Meshing of areas into either triangular or quadrilater al elements. Qua>

  • IBM ECSEC: engAGE, multiblock-structured grids for cfd. 3str>

  • ICEM CFD: ICEM CFD Hexa, a semi-automated hexahedral meshing module which provides rapid generation of multi-block structured or unstructured volume meshes; ICEM CFD Tetra is the object-based tetrahedral meshing module. Tet> 3str>

  • Industrial Research Ltd.: Geocad, interactive grid generation for preparing models of groundwater, geothermal and other multi-phase flows.

  • ISE: Omega, grid generation for three-dimensional problems in microelectronics.

  • MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation: MSC/ARIES, MSC/PATRAN, two finite element preprocessors with tetrahedral and mapped meshing for solids. Tri> 2str> Sur> Tet> 3str>

  • Marc: Mentat-II, manual, semi-automatic and automated 2D/3D mesh generation. 2str> 3str>

  • Parametric Technology Corporation: Pro/MESH, automatic finite element mesh generation of solid models and thin-walled solids created in Pro/ENGINEER. Tet>

  • Pointwise Inc: GRIDGEN, surface and volume grid generation (3D, multiple block, structured grids). 2str> 3str>

  • SAMTEK-ITC: GEMS, multiblock-structured grid generation. 2str> 3str>

  • SDRC: I-DEAS, finite element preprocessing (surface and volume meshing). Tri> 2str> Sur> Tet> 3str>

  • SIMULOG: Simail, an interactive graphical mesh generator generating linear, surfacic or volumetric tetrahedral element meshes. Tri> Tet> Sur>

  • XYZ Scientific Applications Inc.: Truegrid, multiblock structured grid generation. 2str> Sur> 3str>

  • Other sources of interest:

  • Survey of volumetric grid generators, maintained by Alex Woo et. al.

  • Ian MacPhedrans list of public domain mesh generators can be found here.

  • Click here for a list of commercially available preprocessors.

  • Albert Hines' survey of commercial preprocessors and mesh generators can be found here.

  • Click here for another list of grid generators.

  • Christian Klesper has carried out a survey of meshing programs.

  • NASA's steering committee for surface modeling and grid generation has started to build a testcase library for surface modeling and grid generation.

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    Open positions

  • The CFD group at CRS4 (Milano, Italy) has opportunities in the framework of the TMR program for people with background in grid generation (February 24, 1997).

  • Aerosoft Inc. is looking for a research scientist (unstructured grid generation and geometric modeling) (February 24, 1997).

  • Staff position at Concordia University: Talented software developer/coordinator whose responsibilities would include programming aspects for mesh generation and mesh optimization (February 24, 1997).

  • There is a postdoc position at Computer Science Department, University of Minnesota, for somebody intersted in mesh generation in a parallel environment (February 11, 1997).

  • Job offer in the CFD Jobs Database: ICEM CFD is looking for qualified developers to work on grid generation, visualization, and modeling applications (job description) (January 4, 1997).

  • Career Opporunity - 3D Unstructured tetrahedral mesh generation - C/C++ at Ansoft Corp. (Sep. 24, 1996).

  • FLUENT Inc. has an open position for a technical writer/engineer (cfd grid generation software) (August 24, 1996).

  • adapco is offering challenging positions to engineers with prior software development experience in the fields of automatic mesh generation for CFD and/or FEA codes (July 30, 1996).

  • Adaptive Research Inc. has an opening for a senior cfd software developer with experience in unstructured grid generation algorithms development (July 29, 1996).

  • In a German newspaper I found an ad: open position (grid generation) at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) in Braunschweig (July 27, 1996).

  • There is a PhD research position in the area of numerical solution of partial differential equations, investigating adaptive meshing and other related CFD questions, at the Applied Mathematics Division, University of Liverpool (July 8, 1996).

  • The Advanced Imaging Research Group, London, Ontario (Canada), has an open position for an expert in medical imaging and unstructured mesh generation (contact David Steinman) (June 19, 1996).

  • CFD Research Corporation has an open positions for people with background in grid generation, visualization and software development (June 7, 1996).

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    Information on related topics

  • CFD resources online: a comprehensive list with cfd-related information, maintained by Jonas Larsson.

  • Fouad Ahmad at NCSA structural/solid mechanics group maintains a page with information on computational mechanics for the US Association for Computational Mechanics.

  • Information on computational fluid dynamics: ICEM CFD maintains a mirror site of Tomasz Plewa's CFD codes list, a CFD books list and a CFD home pages list.

  • For information on scientific computing in Germany click here.

  • The homepage of MSC has much information on finite element technology.

  • There is a good page on finite elements, maintained by Tapio Leino, in Finland.

  • Geometry in action, a page with much information on computational geometry resources, is maintained by David Eppstein.

  • Jeffe Ericksson's computational geometry pages, a large collection of pointers to the computational geometry world.

  • Nina Armenta maintains the directory of computational geometry software.

  • Jaroslav Mackerle maintains a large bibliogpraphy on finite elements, the finite element booklist.

  • Paul Heckbert has a collection of links on mesh generation and on multiresolution modeling modeling, surface simplification and terrain modeling.

  • Rubin Landau collects links on computational physics pages in the computational science reading list.

  • The Mechanical Analysis Homepage is intended to be a tool for the engineers and scientist who perform mechanical analysis (maintained by Stephen D. Wix).

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