3DMAGGS: Three-Dimensional Multi-block Advanced Grid Generation System

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Stephen J. Alter, Charles G. Miller

Email: s.j.alter@larc.nasa.gov

Web Site: http://aaac.larc.nasa.gov/3DMAGGS/

Availability: Public Domain, Source Code Available

US Citizens and permanent residents only

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: 110

Pricing: Free

Platform: Windows, UNIX (UNIX boxes including LINUX)

Input: Native

GRIDGEN

Engineering Discipline: Structural, CFD, Thermal, Electro Magnetic, Environmental

Elements: Quadrilateral, Hexahedra

Surface Meshing: No

Quad/Hex Method: Structured Grid Generation

Trans-Finite Interpolation, and the solution of Poisson's elliptic partial differential equations

Element Sizing Method:

Trans-Finite Interpolation or Local Arclength Cell Sizing methods can be used to determine interior mesh element sizes based on boundary grid data.

Other Features:

3DMAGGS has the capacity to generate symmetry planes, ellipsoids, spheroids, cylinders, and singular poles to close off a domain.

Comments:

Please note that this software was developed as part of a support services contract from Lockheed Martin to NASA. For this reason, the software is maintained and distributed by Lockheed Martin, but approval to disseminate software lies with NASA. Hence, the inclusion of NASA for contact and organization information.This code is designed to replace the GRIDGEN3D code by offering comparable capabilities at 10 times the speed of execution. It offers low precision machine flags to control round-off error creep, as well
as preconditioning of implicit source term controls with explicit source terms.