Automatic 3D Surface Meshing to Address Today's Industrial Needs

, 1996

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

ANSYS, Inc., 201 Johnson Rd, Houston, PA 15342-1300 USA

Abstract
An overall automatic surface meshing strategy is presented that details a combination of meshing technologies that together provide for meeting the demands placed on automatic, unstructured meshing in industrial settings. These demands include such issues as robustness, mesh quality, speed, and controllability. The scheme ties together several meshing technologies including advancing front tri meshing, background meshes, tri to quad conversion, constrained laplacian smoothing, and topological and quality-based element improvement.