GENIE++

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Professor Bharat K. Soni

Email: bsoni@erc.msstate.edu

Web Site:

Availability: Public Domain

Public Domain , Provided upon request. The commercial version is under works and is expected to be announced by January '99

Customer Support: No

Approximate Number of Users: 140

Platform: UNIX (SGI)

Other Unix workstations with an OpenGL and Mesa graphics, Linux with OpenGL and Mesa for PCs

Input: Native, IGES

Native ,Sculptured Boundary/surface information Surfaces from output of the CAGI system (which reads in IGES file)

Engineering Discipline: CFD, Electro Magnetic

Elements: Quadrilateral, Hexahedra

Surface Meshing: Yes

Quad/Hex Method: Structured Grid Generation

Block Structured using algebraic, Elliptic and hyperbolic/marching technique

Element Sizing Method:

As a function of specified boundary distribution by stratching or according to user specified distribution

Other Features:

Multitude of geometric construction and grid generation options. Good optimal blending of algebraic,elliptic and marching technique for structured grid generation.

Comments:

The commercial version will support generalized( any shape cells) cells, Delaunay Triangulation ( Will be available only in the commercial version)