BL2D

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Patrick Laug, Houman Borouchaki

Email: Patrick.Laug@inria.fr Houman.Borouchaki@univ-troyes.fr

Web Site: http://www.iist.unu.edu/~alumni/software/other/inria/www/bl2d/eng.htm

Availability: Public Domain, Research Code, Source Code Available

Customer Support: No

Approximate Number of Users: 100

Pricing: Free in the case of non commercial experimentation

Platform: UNIX

Input: Native

a file in which each domain is described by its boundaries

Engineering Discipline: Structural, CFD, Electro Magnetic

Elements: Triangle

Surface Meshing: No

Tri/Tet Method: Delaunay

Element Sizing Method: Manual

Automatic or manual (sizes or metrics map)

Other Features: Adaptivity, Anisotropy

Comments:

Can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/Gamma/bl2d. A commercial version of BL2D will be released shortly. It will be a combination of frontal and Delaunay methods in order to improve the mesh quality. Quadrilaterals, elements of degree 2,and boundary deformations will be supported. Also, another software package named BLSURF will be available soon: it is based on BL2D and creates surface meshes in the 3D space.