FELISA

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Karen Bibb, NASA Langley Research Center

Email: k.l.bibb@larc.nasa.gov

Web Site:

Availability: Stand-alone Mesh/Grid Generator

The meshing sofware with FELISA is available for government use. It is anticipated that an updated version of the FELISA mesh generation will be available within a year, primarily for government use.

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: 50

Pricing: Free

Platform: UNIX (primarily SGI's)

Input: Native

FELISA format (bicubic patches for surfaces, point representations of curves, can be created by hand or using GridTool (from IGES or a structured mesh format such as plot3d)

Engineering Discipline: CFD, Electro Magnetic

Elements: Triangle, Tetrahedra

Surface Meshing: Yes

Tri/Tet Method: Delaunay, Advancing Front

surface mesh and original volume mesh are advancing front. surface points are placed directly on the prepresentation of the surface (no projection) volume generation under development is point insertion delauney

Element Sizing Method:

user specified background mesh and point, line, and triangle sources.

Other Features: Adaptivity

an adaptive remeshing procedure is available with the standard version.the volume meshing that is under development has mesh enrichment and movement tools.