Conforming Orthogonal Meshes

Proceedings, 11th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Laboratories, pp.219-230, September 15-18 2002

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

11th International Meshing Roundtable
Ithaca, New York, USA
September 15-18, 2002

Sophie Balaven, Chakib Bennis
Institut Franc¸ ais du Petrole,
92852 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France.
Chakib.Bennis@ifp.fr

Jean Daniel Boissonnat
INRIA, BP 93, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France.
Jean-Daniel.Boissonnat@sophia.inria.fr

Mariette Yvinec
INRIA, BP 93, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France.
Mariette.Yvinec@sophia.inria.fr

Abstract
In this paper we showe how to compute an orthogonal mesh that strictly conforms to a given simpicial complex SC in R^d. This result will be applied to improve the treatment of oil reservoir simulation. The trend for this problem is to use hybrid meshes obtained by inserting radial well meshes in a structured reservoir grid. Our work can be used to generate a transition mesh connecting the reservoir mesh to well meshes and preserving strict conformity.

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