Generation of Tetrahedral Meshes around Complete Aircraft

Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Mechanics `88, Pineridge Press, pp.675-684, 1988

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

in proceedings:
Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Mechanics '88, Edited by S. Sengupta, J. Hauser, P.R. Eiseman, J. F. Thompson.
Copyright 1988 Pineridge Press
ISBN 0-906674-68-9

Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-5263

Abstract
A new O(N log N) algorithm has been developed for generating a triangulation of point sets in three dimensional space. The method exploits a ~generalized form of the Delaunay triangulation which can create unstructured meshes around aircraft shapes of arbitrary complexity.