6TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL
MESHING ROUNDTABLE


October 13-15, 1997
Park City, Utah, U.S.A.

Sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories
Hosted by Brigham Young University

This page provides links to abstracts and papers that were presented at the 6th Annual International Meshing Roundtable. It is maintained by Steve Owen as part of the Meshing Research Corner at CMU. To view the abstract for a paper, click on its title. To download a gzipped postscript copy of the entire paper, click on the file name next to "Download Postcript". Postscript copies of all papers that were submitted electronically are available here. These papers have been placed here by permission of the authors and Sandia National Laboratories.

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Keynote Address

High Performance Computing in the U.S. the Next Five Years
Horst D. Simon

Session 1 - Plenary I

1a - Quadrilateral Meshing by Circle Packing
Marshall Bern and David Eppstein
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1b - Hybrid Prismatic/Tetrahedral Grids for Turbomachinery Applications
Yannis Kallinderis, Aly Khawaja, and Harlan McMorris
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1c - High Fidelity Interval Assignment
Scott Mitchell
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Session 2A - Geometry and Visualization

2a1 - An Immersive Environment for Exploration of CUBIT Meshes
Constantine Pavlakos, Jake Jones, and Scott Mitchell
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2a2 - Virtual Topology Operators for Meshing
Alla Sheffer, Ted Blacker, Jan Clements, and Michel Bercovier
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2a3 - An Object-Oriented Virtual Geometry Interface
Malcolm Panthaki, Raikanta Sahn, and Walter Gerstle
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Session 2B - Triangular Meshing

2b1 - Ball-Packing Method: A New Approach for Quality Automatic Triangluation of Arbitrary Domains
Jianfei Liu and Rongxi Tang
postscript not available

2b2 - A Mathematical Basis for Automated Grid Generation with Close Coupling to the Flow Solver
Daniel Barnette
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2b3 - Delaunay Triangulation for Curved Surfaces
Hao Chen and Jonathan Bishop
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Session 3A - Sizing/Gradation/Optimization

3a1 - Mesh Gradation Control
Houman Borouchaki and Frederic Hecht
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3a2 - Neighborhood-Based Element Sizing Control for Finite Element Surface Meshing
Steve Owen
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3a3 - A Global Optimization to Quadrilateral Meshing
Joseph Jung, Clark Dohrmann, Walt Witkowski, Paul Wolfenbarger, Walter Gerstle, Scott Mitchell, Malcolm Panthaki, and Dan Segalman
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3a4 - Use of Boundary Integral Method to Determine Local Characteristic Feature Size of Geometric Domains
Walter Gerstle, Joseph Jung, Walter Witkowski, and Malcolm Panthaki
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Session 3B - Advancing Front Techniques and Structured Meshes

3b1 - Redesign of the Paving Algorithm: Robustness Enhancements through Element by Element Meshing
David White and Paul Kinney
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3b2 - Combining Quadrilateral and Triangular Meshing using the Advancing Front Approach
Matthew Rees
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3b3 - Towards an Adaptive Advancing Front Method
Eric Seveno
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Session 4 - Plenary II

4a - Automatic Hexahedral Mesh Generation by Recursive Convex and Swept Volume Decomposition
Shang-Sheng Liu and Rajit Gahd
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4b - An Interpreted Language and System for the Visualization of Unstructured Meshes
Patrick Moran
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4c - Effect of Mesh Quality on Solution Efficiency
Lori Freitag and Carl Ollivier-Gooch
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Session 5A - Hex Dominant Meshing

5a1 - Generating Hexahedron-Dominant Mesh Based on Shrinking-Mapping Method
Weidong Min
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5a2 - The ``HexTet'' Hex-Dominant Automesher: An Interim Progress Report
Philip Tuchinsky and Brett Clark
postscript not available

5a3 - An Algorithm for the Generation of Hexahedral Element Meshes based on an Octree Technique
Robert Schneiders
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Session 5B - Quad Meshing

5b1 - Unstructured Surface Meshing using Operators
Soo-Won Chae and Jung-Hwan Jeong
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5b2 - High Quality Quadrilateral Surface Meshing without Template Restrictions: A New Approach Based on Network Flow Techniques
Matthias Muller-Hannemann Download Postscript: hannemann97.ps.gz (237 Kb)

5b3 - Quadrilateral Mesh Generation based on a Variational Method
Dietrich Nowottny
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Session 6A - Tetrahedral Meshing

6a1 - Adaptive Simplicial Grids from Cross-sections of Monotone Complexes
Herbert Edelsbrunner and Roman Waupotitsch
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6a2 - Pattern Recognition and Shape-Specific Meshing for Generating All Hexahedral Meshes
Bih-Yaw Shih and Hiroshi Sakurai
postscript not available

6a3 - Three-Dimensional Delaunay Mesh Generation Using a Modified Advancing Front Approach
Peter Fleischmann and Siegfried Selberherr
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Session 6B - Quality 1

6b1 - Surface Mesh Evaluation
Pascal Frey and Houman Borouchaki
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6b2 - Anisotropic Triangular Meshing of Parametric Surfaces via Close Packing of Ellipsoidal Bubbles
Kenji Shimada, Atsushi Yamada, and Takayuki Itoh
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6b3 - Non-obtuse Boundary Delaunay Triangulations
Nancy Hitschfeld and M. Cecilia Rivara
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Session 7A - Industry

7a1 - Industrial Requirements and Practices in Finite Element Meshing: A Survey of Trends
Marc Halpern
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7a2 - Automotive Industry Needs for Versatile Meshing Tools
Harley Wattrick and Don Dewhirst
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7a3 - Aerospace Industry Needs
Tim Wilson Download Postscript: wilson97.ps.gz (2 Kb)

Session 7B - Quality II

7b1 - A Solution Based Triangular and Tetrahedral Mesh Quality Indicator
Martin Berzins
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7b2 - Comparative Study of Unstructured Meshes Made of Triangles and Quadrilaterals
Anish Malanthara and Walter Gerstle
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7b3 - Clean-Up: Improving Quadrilateral Finite Element Meshes
Paul Kinney
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