Meshing Software Survey

A SURVEY OF
UNSTRUCTURED
MESH
GENERATION
TECHNOLOGY

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

PRODUCT
COMPARISON

SOFTWARE
PRODUCTS

OVERALL
STATISTICS

As part of a survey of unstructured mesh generation technology, an informal survey was conducted during September 1998 of current mesh and grid generation software. Over 100 surveys were mailed to software vendors, research labs and educational institutions. This list is definitely not all-inclusive, but I believe is fairly representative of what is currently available, as well as what is state-of-the-art. Only those responding to the survey are included here. While the emphasis of the survey is unstructured codes, there is also a considerable number of structured codes included. The codes range from simple research codes that are used only by a few people, to commercial products incorporated into sophisticated analysis packages. Please send any corrections or additions to this list to Steve Owen at sjowen@sandia.gov or sowen@adelphia

Another catalog of mesh generation software is available from CEWES, which also includes independant review information. I should also mention Robert Schneider's list of mesh generation software, which provided www information for most of the software in this survey.

Product Comparison

Software Products are grouped into the following categories.

Triangle
Quadrilateral
Tetrahedra
Hexahedra
Structured

Software Products

2-D GWADAPT, UNLV	Hypermesh, Altair
3DMAGGS, NASA, Langley & Lockheed	ICEM CFD, ICEM CFD
ACE/gredit, OGI	Javamesh, U. of Pittsburgh
ADMesh, Varlog	LaGriT, Los Alamos
AFLR2, ERC, Miss. State	MAFIA-M, CST
AFLR3, ERC, Miss. State	MEGA, SCOREC, RPI
AMESH, EKK, Inc	MegaCads, DLR, Inst. of Des. Aerodyn. & MEGAFLOW
ANISO - QUAD, Comp. Mech., Australia	Mentat, MARC
ANSYS, ANSYS, Inc.	Mesh++, CRS4, Sardinia
Argus ONE, Argus Interware, Inc.	Mesh-Maker, Env. Ctr., U. of Leeds
AVL FAME, AVL LIST GmbH	mesh2d, SCOREC, RPI
BAMG, INRIA	MESH, ISE, Zurich
BL2D, INRIA	MG, TeCGraf
BUDMESH2D, BUD Calcul Technique et Scientifique	MTC, SCC/ CEMEF
CADfix, FEGS Ltd.	NETGEN, J. Kepler U., Austria
CAF2D/GENMESH, Yeungnam Univ., KR	NMGS, B. Baris DUNDAR
CAGI, ERC, Miss. State	ObjectMesh, Sim. Tech. Inc.
Cart3D, NASA Ames	OVERGRID, NASA, Ames
CFD-GEOM, CFD Research Corp.	Overture, CASC, LLNL
Chalmesh, Chalmers U., Sweden	Preproc, Num. Meth. Lab., U. of Bucharest
COG, WIAS Berlin	PRISM, NASA Ames
CSCMDO, CSC/NASA LaRC	Qhull, Geom. Center, U. of Minneapolis
CUBIT, Sandia Nat. Lab	QMG, Cornell University
delaundo, Von Karman Institute	QUAD - BUILD, Comp. Mech., Australia
DesignSpace, ANSYS Inc.	QUAD - GEN, Comp. Mech., Australia
EasyMesh, U. of Trieste	QuikGrid, Perspective Edge
EleGrid, Elements Research	samm, adapco
EMC2, INRIA	SCP Grid Library, Syracuse University
FELISA, NASA/MIT	SD, David Kornmann
FEMGV, Femsys Ltd.	SKY/Mesh2, Skyblue Systems
FIST, SUNY Stony Brook	SolidMesh, ERC, Miss. State
Gambit, Fluent, Inc.	TetMesh GHS3D, SIMULOG
GENIE++, ERC, Miss. State	TGrid, Fluent, Inc.
GeoCad, Industrial research	TIGER II, Catalpa Research, Inc.
geomagic Wrap, Raindrop Geomagic	TMG, CNR, U. of Milano
Geompack90, ZCS Inc.	TOAST, U. C. of London
GiD, CIMNE	Triangle, CMU
GMS, EMRC, BYU	TriGrid, Channel Consulting Ltd
GMSH, E. C. Montreal & U. Liege	TrueGrid, XYZ Sci. Apps., Inc.
GridCAD, Beaver Discovery	TRUMPET, NASA, Lewis
Gridgen, Pointwise	TurboMesh, SolidPoint
Gridomatic, VKI, UCDavis	UNAMALLA, UNAM
gridpak, Rutgers University	VGM, NASA, Langley & Lockheed
GridPro, CLE GmbH and PDC	VGRID, NASA Langley
GridTool, NASA Langley	Xcog, Chalmers U., Sweden
GRUMMP, U. of British Columbia	XGEN, Charles U., Prague
GUM-B, ERC, Miss. State
HOMARD, Electricité de France

Overall Statistics