Structured Grid Generation Technology

Proceedings, 7th International Meshing Roundtable, Sandia National Lab, pp.269, October 1998

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

7th International Meshing Roundtable
October 26-28, 1998
Dearborn, Michigan, USA

Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Sr. CFD Lead ARL_ASC PET_MSRC
NSF Engineering Research Center
Mississippi StateUniversity
PC Box 6176
Mississippi State, MS 39762
e-mail: bsoni@erc.msstate.edu

Abstract
An overview of the current state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice of the structured grid generation technology will be provided. The structured grid strategies including attached and overlapping(Chimera) grids will be discussed with generation and adaptation methodologies and softwares. In particular, algebraic, elliptic and hyperbolic generation schemes will be described with grid quality and response time issues. The utilization of Computer Aided Geometry Design (CAGD) techniques in structured grid generation and in interfacing CAD systems will be described.CAGD and grid generation softwares available in public domain and offered by commercial vendors will be presented. Current research efforts in autoblocking and parallel adaptive! moving grid techniques will be summarized.