Hybrid Grid Generation Controlled by Automatic Blocking

Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, Ed. M. Cross., B. K. Soni, J. F. Thompson, J. Hauser, P. R. Eiseman, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, held at the University of Greenwich, pp.511-520, July 1998

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

CERCA, 5160, boul. Decarie, bureau 400, Montreal, QC, H3X 2H9, Canada
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, departement de genie mecanique, C.P.
6079, succ. A, QC, H3C 3A7, Canada

Abstract
Automatic blocking procedures based on a geometric representation of the model that needs to be meshed are put to work to generate both multi-bloc structured and hybrid structured/unstructured meshes inside turbomachinary components. Emphasis is placed on the generation technique itself, which can be configured to automatically produce a wide spectrum of common mesh configurations by varying a few basic parameters.

It is believed that this technique is a significant improvement over standard multi-bloc structured as well as fully unstructured mesh generation techniques aimed at solving the Navier-Stokes equations inside complex geometries.