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The Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation brings together a wide variety of disciplines for the exchange of technical information related to unstructured mesh generation. It is a symposium traditionally held in conjuction with the national and international computational mechanics congresses. The following is a list of previous MeshTrends symposia:

Scope of Symposium

Automatic unstructured mesh generation continues to be a vital technology in computational field simulations. As computing technology continues to advance and modeling requirements become more precise, automatic mesh generation techniques must rise to fulfill ever-increasing and diverse expectations. This symposium is a forum for exploring and synthesizing many of technologies needed to develop a computational grid suitable for simulation. While its focus has traditionally centered on automatic mesh generation algorithms and techniques, the symposium will provide a broader forum for discussion of technologies relevant to the design through analysis process. Topics of interest include:

• Surface and volume meshing algorithms
• Mesh improvement criteria and algorithms
• Mesh adaptation algorithms
• Anisotropic mesh generation and adaptation
• Dealing with geometry issues including, dirty geometry, integration with CAD and high order elements
• Mesh evolution in evolving geometry problems
• Automatic geometric simplification techniques
• Interesting applications of automated and adaptive analysis
• Novel new domain discretization schemes
• Parallel implementations and control of very large meshes
• The Design-through-Analysis Process including data translation, automation, best practices, data standards, and design for analysis issues.
  

Abstract Submission

Abstracts are required for the conference and will be included in the conference proceedings. All abstracts must be submitted electronically through the WCCM web site. Be sure to submit abstracts directly to the symposium titled 5TH SYMPOSIUM ON TRENDS IN UNSTRUCTURED MESH GENERATION. Abstracts are due March 15, 2006. Abstracts are limited to 350 words and can only be submitted electronically.

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Paper Submission

As part of this symposium, full papers will be solicited from the accepted presentations for inclusion in a peer-reviewed special journal edition of Engineering With Computers. Publication solicitation will be based on the interest of the participating authors and the technical merit of the presentation. Inviatations for paper submissions will be made following the WCCM.

Important Dates

Symposium Organizers

Steven J. Owen, Ph.D.
Computational Modeling Sciences Department
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Phone: (505) 284-6599
Email: sjowen@sandia.gov

Mark S. Shephard, Ph.D.
Director, Scientific Computation Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy New York, U.S.A.
Phone: (518) 276-6795
Fax: (518) 276-4886
Email: shephard@scorec.rpi.edu

Additional Information

Additional information on the conference can be found at: http://www.wccm2006.northwestern.edu/

Presentations

The following presentations were presented at the MeshTrends5 Symposium, July 2006. Authors were offered the opportunity to submit their presentation to be posted online. They appear here as a courtesy to the authors. Other authors are welcome to submit their presentation or a link.

• Challenges in Parallel Meshing of Evolving Geometries, Damrong Guoy, University of Illlinois at Urbana-Champaign, guoy@uiuc.edu
• A Strategy to Convert Unstructured Meshes into Polyhedral Meshes, Thomas Gessner, Chin K. Lim, Sujit Potnar, Fluent, Inc., tg@fluent.com
• LMS HMesher - Automatic Mesh Generation for Complex CAD Assemblies, Iulian Grindeaunu, LMS International, Hideaki Ozaki, Honda R&D Co. Ltd., Automobile R&D Center, Iulian.Grindeanu@lmscae.com

sjowen@sandia.gov