MEGA (Meshing Environment for Geometry-based Analysis

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Mark Shephard

Email: Shephard@scorec.rpi.edu

Web Site: http://www.scorec.rpi.edu/

Availability:

It is available through our Partner's Program which supports research activities

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: unknown

Pricing: Through the Partner's Program which includes development efforts.

Platform: Windows, UNIX (NT soon)

Input:

Options include functional links to geometric modeling kernels, Boundary facets, STEP (under construction)

Engineering Discipline: Structural, CFD

Elements: Triangle, Tetrahedra

Surface Meshing: Yes

Tri/Tet Method: Delaunay, Advancing Front, Octree

Element Sizing Method: Automatic based on feature sizes

Multiple functions from automatic curvature-based to setting size parameters on geometric model entities.

Other Features: Boundary Layers, Adaptivity, Refinement, Mesh_Improvement

The mesh generator includes a highly robust boundary layer procedure. Mesh modification procedures included; mesh shape optimization, refinement and coarsening for adaptive control, ensuring the mesh can curve to the model boundary for p-version, multiple elements through the thickness, elimination of influence of small geometric features, etc.

Comments:

MEGA is a toolkit of mesh generation capabilities.