AFLR2

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: David L. Marcum

Email: marcum@erc.msstate.edu

Web Site:

Availability: Research Code, Stand-alone Mesh/Grid Generator

AFLR2 is available under a "research license" to researchers at institutions in the USA. A "research license" may be requested by sending e-mail to David L. Marcum (marcum@erc.msstate.edu). The e-mail should include; a short description (a few sentences) of the research project, meshing requirements, who you are, who you work for and/or with on the subject research, your department, your institution, your address and phone number.

Customer Support: No

Approximate Number of Users: 50

Pricing: research license required

Platform: UNIX (HP - HP-UX, SUN - Solaris, SGI - IRIX)

PC - Linux, PC - Solaris

Input: Native

Engineering Discipline: CFD, Environmental

Elements: Triangle, Quadrilateral

Surface Meshing: No

Tri/Tet Method: Delaunay, Advancing Front

Advancing-Front/Local-Reconnection (AFLR), advancing-front placement for trias, advancing-normal placement for high-aspect-ratio-elements

Quad/Hex Method: Advancing Front

Advancing-Front/Local-Reconnection (AFLR), advancing-point placement for quads

Element Sizing Method:

Element size is determined from boundary edge grid, field point sources, embedded field points, embedded boundary surfaces. Growth normal to boundary edges can be specified with either isotropic and/or anisotropic grids.

Other Features: Boundary Layers, Adaptivity, Anisotropy, Refinement, Mesh_Improvement

AFLR2 capabilities include tria and/or quad mixed element grids, boundary-layers, solution adapted grids, embedded or transparent edges (wake adaptation, multi-materials, etc.)

Comments:

AFLR2 is widely used for CFD applications with the FUN2D flow solver (W.Kyle Anderson, NASA-Langley, http://fmad-www.larc.nasa.gov:80/~wanderso/Fun/fun.html)