Tetrahedral mesh courtesy of Ansys Inc.
The following is an attempt at compiling some of the current literature available on the subject of unstructured mesh generation. Currently over 1000 journal articles are referenced. Abstracts are cited for most of the references. Complete papers are available for the past twelve years of the annual International Meshing Roundtable.
This list will be updated and maintained on a regular basis. Suggestions,
additions and corrections may be mailed to Steve
Owen at sjowen@sandia.gov.
For those new to this field, you may want to take a look at a quick introduction to mesh generation. I have also written a brief overview of some of the fundamental algorithms used in much of today's unstructured mesh generation software. As part of the survey, a list of mesh generation software is included.
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18th International Meshing Roundtable 
will be held in Salt Lake City Utah, USA October 25-28, 2009
7th Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation
MeshTrends VII will be held in conjunction with the 10th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics to be held in Columbus, Ohio, July 16-19 2009.
17th International Meshing Roundtable
The 17th International Meshing Roundtable was held October 12-15, 2008, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, USA.
16th International Meshing Roundtable
The 16th International Meshing Roundtable was held October 14-17, 2007, in Seattle, Washington, USA.
6th Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation
MeshTrends VI was held in conjunction with the 9th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics to be held in San Francisco, California, July 23-26 2007.
15th International Meshing Roundtable
The 15th International Meshing Roundtable was held September 17-20, 2006, in Birmigham, Alabama, USA. Full papers are now available from this site.
5th Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation (MeshTrends V)
MeshTrends V was held in conjunction with the 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 16-22 2006. A special journal edition of Engineering with Computers will be published from this symposium.
14th International Meshing Roundtable
The 14th International Meshing Roundtable was held September 11-14, 2005, in San Diego California. Full papers and abstracts now available from this site.
A Survey of Parallel Mesh Generation Methods (PDF File)
A paper written by Nikos Chrisochoides (Brown University, Providence RI) describing current approaches to the parrallel meshing problem
Held June 11-18, 2005, San Jose Calfornia
11th
International Meshing Roundtable
Journal Special Edition published in Engineering with Computers, July, 2004
Journal Special Edition from 9th International Meshing Roundtable
Selected papers from the 9th International Meshing Roundtable, held October, 2000 in New Orleans, Louisianna USA, have been published in a special edition of the Journal, Engineering with Computers.
A document describing the XML Mesh and Geometry Format used by Ansys Inc.
A special edition of the journal Computer Aided Design was published with selected papers from the 8th International Meshing Roundtable.
Selected papers from the 2nd Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation have been published as a special edition of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.
A listserv dedicated to topics related to mesh generation has been set up. Sign up for the list here.
A
Survey of Unstructured Mesh Generation Technology
A brief overview some of the fundamental algorithms that are used in today's unstructured mesh generation software. Also includes a survey of Mesh/Grid Generation Software. Currently containing details from 94 software products.
A forum where Universities, Companies and Organizations can advertise open positions in the field of mesh generation. This is a new free service provided by CFD Online and this web site.
Join the International
Society of Grid Generation (ISGG), currently under the direction
of Bharat Soni at Mississippi
State University
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