GeoCad

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Dr Stephen P White

Email: s.white@irl.cri.nz

Web Site: http://www.maths.irl.cri.nz/software-development/GeoCad.html

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

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: 30

Pricing: $1,500-$3,000

Platform: Windows, UNIX (HP)

Input: Native

Mouse and keyboard

Engineering Discipline: Environmental

Reservoir engineers

Elements: Quadrilateral, Hexahedra

Surface Meshing: No

Quad/Hex Method: Structured Grid Generation

Element Sizing Method: Manual

Other Features:

Designed to produce input for groundwater modelling and has many features apart from meshing. e.g. specification of material properties, topology, well locations, initial and boundary conditions etc.,etc

Comments:

GeoCad is a GUI interface to the TOUGH2 set of programs from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Karsten Pruess is the original author of these). These programs use the integrated finite element method to model flows of heat and mass in a porous media. The integrated finite element method can use any shaped element and GeoCad will allow you to draw any shaped element using the mouse. Elements may be divided by one or more lines. For automatic generation of many elements only quadrilateral bricks are supported