COG

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Ilja Schmelzer

Email: schmelzer@wias-berlin.de

Web Site: http://www.wias-berlin.de/software/cog/

Availability: Public Domain, Commercial Code, Stand-alone Mesh/Grid Generator, Source Code Available

Public domain version with restricted functionality. Full version available on agreement.

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: not given

Pricing: ftp://ftp.wias-berlin.de/pub/cog/pricing.html

Platform: UNIX (Developed and tested on DEC alpha)

C++ source code

Input: Native

Native. Various possibilities for geometry description (including pictures and boolean operations) and simplicity of implementation of new geometry descriptions is one of the advantages of the package.

Engineering Discipline:

various

Elements: Triangle, Tetrahedra

Surface Meshing: Yes

Tri/Tet Method: Delaunay

Delaunay. Octree techniques used to generate point sets.

Element Sizing Method: Manual

Various possibilities for user control

Other Features: Anisotropy, Refinement

Geometries consisting of different regions with internal boundaries, 2D grids on intersections of 3D geometries, Local anisotropic refinement.