4TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL
MESHING ROUNDTABLE

October 16-17, 1995
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories

This page provides links to abstracts and papers that were presented at the 4th Annual International Meshing Roundtable. It is maintained by Steve Owen as part of the Meshing Research Corner at CMU. Postscript copies of some of the papers have been made avaiilable by permission of the Authors and Sandia National Laboratories.

Monday, October 16th

• Session 1A - Tetrahedral/Triangular Mesh Generation

  H. Borouchaki, F. Hecht, E. Saltel, P. L. George

  "Reasonably Efficient Delaunay Based Mesh Generator in 3 Dimensions"
  Download Postscript: borouchaki.ps.gz (150 Kb)

  Joel Conraud

  "Lazy Constrained Tetrahedralization"
  Download Postscript: conraud.ps.gz (1012 Kb)

• Session 1B - Special Purpose Meshing Algorithms I

  Rainald Lohner

  "Surface Gridding from Discrete Data"
  Download Postscript: lohner.ps.gz (30 Kb)

  George M. Turkiyyah, Mark A. Ganter, Duane W. Storti

  "Skeleton-Based Hexahedral Finite Element Mesh Generation of General 3D Solids"

• Session 2A - Adaptive Mesh Generation and Refinement

  Lori Freitag, Mark Jones, Paul Plassmann

  "An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Mesh Smoothing"
  Download Postscript: freitag.epsi.gz (129 Kb)

  Randy Lober, Tim Tautges, Rich A. Cairncross

  "The Parallelization of an Advancing-front, All-quadrilateral Meshing Algorithm for Adaptive analysis"
  Download Postscript: lober.ps.gz (160 Kb)

• Session 2B - Special Purpose Meshing Algorithms II

  M. J. Castro-Diaz, F. Hecht, B. Mohammadi

  "New Progress in Anisotropic Grid Adaptation for Inviscid and Viscid Flows Simulations"
  Download Postscript: castro-diaz.ps.gz (2029 Kb)

  Z. J. Wang

  "Proof of Concept - An Automated CFD Computing Environment with a Cartesian/Prism Grid Generator, Grid Adaptor and Flow Solver"

• Session 3 - All-Hexahedral Mesh Generation I

  Robert Schneiders

  "Automatic Generation of Hexahedral Finite Element Meshes"
  Download Postscript: schneiders.ps.gz (432 Kb)

  Timothy J. Tautges, Scott Mitchell

  "Whisker Weaving: Invalid Connectivity Resolution and Primal Construction Algorithm"
  Download Postscript: tautges.ps.gz (56 Kb)

  Michael Hohmeyer, Wayne Christopher

  "Fully-Automated Object-Based Generation of Hexahedral Meshes"
  Download Postscript: hohmeyer.ps.gz (72 Kb)

Tuesday, October 17th

• Session 4A - All Hexahedral Mesh Generation II

  David Holmes

  "Generalized Method of Decomposing Solid Geometry into Hexahedron Finite Elements"
  Download Postscript: holmes.ps.gz (45 Kb)

  Martin Jones, Mark Price, Geoffrey Butlin

  "Geometry Management Support for Auto-meshing"
  Download Postscript: jones.ps.gz (102 Kb)

  David White, Lai Mingwu, Steven Benzley, Gregory Sjaardema

  "Automated Hexahedral Mesh Generation by Virtual Decomposition"
  Download Postscript: white.ps.gz (92 Kb)

• Session 4B - Applications / Application-Specific Algorithms

  Steven E. Benzley, Ernest Perry, Karl Merkley, Brett Clark, Gregory D. Sjaardema

  "A Comparison of All Hexagonal and All Tetrahedral Finite Element Meshesfor Elastic and Elasto-plastic Analysis"
  Download Postscript: benzley.ps.gz (71 Kb)

  P. H. Schimpf, D. R. Haynor, Y. Kim

  "Automated Meshing of complex 3-D domains from classified images"
  Download Postscript: schimpf.ps.gz (56 Kb)

  Curtis R. Mitchell, Gary Hufford, Mahesh Athavale

  "Automated Semi-Structured Prismatic Grids for Brush Seals Analysis"

• Session 5A - All Hexahedral Mesh Generation III

  Mark Price, Clive Stops, Geoffrey Butlin

  "A Medial Object Toolkit for Meshing and Other Applications"
  Download Postscript: robertson.ps.gz

  Scott Mitchell, Timothy J. Tautges

  "Pillowing Doublets: Refining a Mesh to Ensure that Faces Share at Most One Edge"
  Download Postscript: samitch.ps.gz (27 Kb)

  Jim Hipp, Brett Clark

  "Plastering Algorithm and New Knife Embedding and Face Insertion Implementations"

• Session 5B - Novel Ideas in Mesh Generation

  Pete Murdoch

  "The Spatial Twist Continuum"

  John S. Letcher, Jr, Michael Shook

  "NURBS Considered Harmful for Gridding (Alternative Offered)"
  View HTML Document: http://www.netins.net/showcase/aerohydr/nurbharm/nurbharm.htm
  Download Postscript: shook.ps.gz (121 Kb)

  N. Hitschfeld

  "Algorithms and Data Structures for Handling a Fully Flexible Refinement Approach in Mesh Generation"
  Download Postscript: hitschfeld.ps.gz (914 Kb)

  C.G. Armstrong, D;J. Robinson, R.M. McKeag, T.S. Li, S.J. Bridgett

  "Medials for Meshing and More"
  Download Postscript: armstrong.ps.gz (311 Kb)

• Session 6 - Tetrahedral/Triangular Mesh Generation II

  Don Dewhirst, Sreedhar Vangavolu, Harley Wattrick

  "The Combination of Hexahedral and Tetrahedral Meshing Algorithms"

  Soo-Won Chee, Jong-Soo Kim

  "Tetrahedral Meshing Algorithm Using Basic Operators"

• Session 7 - Tetrahedral/Triangular Mesh Generation III

  Rao Garimella, Mark Shephard

  "Tetrahedral Mesh Generation with Multiple Elements Through the Thickness"
  Download Postscript: garimella.ps.gz (820 Kb)

  Maria-Cecilia Rivara, Patricio Inostroza

  "A Discussion on Mixed (Longest-Side Midpoint Insertion) Delaunay Techniques for the Triangulation Refinement Problem"
  Download Postscript: rivara.ps.gz (58 Kb)

Also see the Web page for the 5th International Meshing Roundtable held October 10-11, 1996 hosted by ANSYS, Inc., in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.