Gridomatic

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Dave Banks

Email: dbanks@cislunar.com

Web Site:

Availability: Research Code

Customer Support: No

Approximate Number of Users: 10-20

Pricing: N/A

Platform: UNIX

Input:

boundary facets

Engineering Discipline: CFD

Elements: Triangle, Quadrilateral

Surface Meshing: No

Tri/Tet Method: Delaunay, Advancing Front

Quad/Hex Method: Advancing Front, Structured Grid Generation

Hyperbolic

Element Sizing Method:

manual stretching functions

Other Features: Boundary Layers, Anisotropy

Comments:

Well, boundary layers and Anisotropy were why I went hybrid.
For 2D this algorithm produced some very nice grids and the
structured and unstructured matching was quite seamless. I was
really quite pleased with it ....but.... The extension to 3D was
not clear and the project died when I came home from the VKI.
Not that I didn't have ideas, funding was just too dry for it.
I still see my grids popping up in a VKI report every now and then.
I also believe somebody added in a wake tracking feature to
keep the boundary layer grid where it would do the most good.
The only thing missing then would be solid handling of multi-element
airfoils. The patching scheme in there now can't handle a general
case.