5TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL
MESHING ROUNDTABLE

October 10-11, 1996
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories
Hosted by ANSYS Inc.

This page provides links to abstracts and papers that were presented at the
5th Annual International Meshing Roundtable. It is maintained by
Steve Owen
as part of the Meshing Research Corner at CMU.
Postscript copies of all of the papers have been made avaiilable by
permission of the Authors and Sandia National Laboratories.
If you have any problems downloading files from this site, all papers are mirrored at a
site maintained by Scott Mitchell of Sandia National Laboratories.
You may also request a free hardcopy of the 5IMR proceedings by
email to Ann Sample.
All 25 compressed postscript files are also available as a
unix tar file (10.5 Mb)
from this site.
Thursday, October 10th 1996
- Keynote Address
- David Field, General Motors Research & Development Center
- "Give me a good mesh"
- Session 1 - General
- Geoffrey Butlin, Mark Gammon, Martin Jones, John Rawlinson
- "CAD data repair"
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butlin.ps.gz (25 Kb)
- Ted Blacker
- "The Cooper Tool"
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blacker_final.ps.gz (1207 Kb)
- Pascal Frey, Houman Borouchaki, Paul-Louis Geouge
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"Delaunay tetrahedralization using an advancing-front approach"
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frey5839.ps.gz (1152 Kb)
- Session 2 - General
- Gary L. Miller, Dafna Talmor, Shang-Hua Teng, Noel Walkington, Han Wang
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"Control volume meshes using sphere packing: generation,
refinement & coarsening"
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miller-final2631.ps.gz (102 Kb)
- Frank J. Bossen, Paul S. Heckbert
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"A pliant method for anisotropic mesh generation"
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bossen7899.ps.gz (558 Kb)
- Session 3 - General
- Maria-Cecilia Rivara
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"New mathematical tool and techniques for the refinement and/or
improvement of unstructured triangulations"
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rivara2736.ps.gz (49 Kb)
- Lori Freitag and Carl Ollivier-Gooch
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"A comparison of tetrahedral mesh improvement techniques"
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freitag.ps.gz (204 Kb)
- Panel Discussion
Friday, October 11th 1996
- Session 4A - Refinement and Partitioning
- Jerome Galtier and Paul-Louis George
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"Prepartitioning as a way to mesh subdomains in parallel"
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galtier4341.ps.gz (199 Kb)
- A. Plaza and G.F. Carey
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"About local refinement of tetrahedral grids based on bisection"
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aplaza788.ps.gz (319 Kb)
- Joseph M. Maubach
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"The efficient location of neighbors for locally refined n-simplical grids"
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maubach.ps.gz (270 Kb)
- Session 4B - Meshing from Special Geometric Models
- Pedro V. Marcal
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"Constructive solid geometry, the CAD-FEM connection"
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marcal.ps.gz (328 Kb)
- Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Edward J. Coyle and Kwun-Nan Lin
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"Boundary and 3D triangular meshes from planar cross sections"
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Bajaj6531.ps.gz (117 Kb)
- Atsushi Yamada, Kenji Shimada, and Takayuki Iboh
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"Energy-minimizing approach to meshing curved wire-frame models"
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yamada4895.ps.gz (385 Kb)
- Session 5A - 3D-Tree Refinement, Hexahedra, and Sweeping
- Nancy Hitschfeld and Rodrigo Farias
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"1-irregular element tessellation in mixed element meshes for the
control volume discretization method"
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Hitschfeld2736.ps.gz (196 Kb)
- R. Schneiders, R. Schindler, and F. Weiler
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"Octree-based generation of hexahedral element meshes"
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schneiders4558.ps.gz (308 Kb)
- Lai Mingwu and Steven E. Benzley
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"An improved sweeping method for generating all hexahedral
finite element meshes"
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mingwul.ps.gz (250 Kb)
- Session 5B - Surface Meshing
- Houman Borouchaki, Pascal J. Frey, and Paul Louis George
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"Unstructured triangular-quadrilateral mesh generation
application to surface meshing"
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borouchaki5998.ps.gz (2756 Kb)
- H. L. de Cougny and M. S. Shephard
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"Surface meshing using vertex insertion"
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decougny6195.ps.gz (308 Kb)
- Friedhelm Neugebauer and Ralf Dickmann
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"Improved mesh generation: not simple but good"
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NeugebauerFinal6690.ps.gz (82 Kb)
- Session 6A - Hexahedral Meshing
- Bih-Yaw Shih and Hiroshi Sakurai
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"Automated hexahedral mesh generation by swept volume
decomposition and recomposition"
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bihyaw_pos.ps.gz (132 Kb)
- N. Chiba, I. Nisbigaki, Y. Yamasbita, C. Takizawa, and K. Fujisbiro
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"Automatic hexahedral mesh generation system based on
shape-recognition and boundary-fit method"
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chiba.ps.gz (444 Kb)
- Shang-Sheng Liu and Rajit Gadh
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"Basic LOgical Bulk shapes (BLOBs) for finite element
hexahedral mesh generation"
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liu3952.ps.gz (150 Kb)
- Session 6B - Analysis and Visualization
- R. J. Donaghy, W. McCune, S. J. Bridgett, C. G. Armstrong, D. J. Robinson, and R. M. McKeag
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"Dimensional reduction of analysis models"
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donaghy_qub_final.ps.gz (340 Kb)
- Brett W. Clark and Steven E. Benzley
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"Development and evaluation of a degenerate seven-node
hexahedron finite element"
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clark2029.ps.gz (49 Kb)
- Carole S. Gitlin and Christopher R. Johnson
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"MeshView: visualizing 3D unstructured meshes"
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gitlin5962.ps.gz (780 Kb)
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