NETGEN

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Joachim Schöberl

Email: joachim@numa.uni-linz.ac.at

Web Site: http://www.hpfem.jku.at/netgen/

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

Free license for non-commercial users, Volume mesher is integrated into commercial CFD code

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: 65

Pricing: Free

Platform: Windows, UNIX

simple graphics using XLib or sdk, respectively

Input: Native

either: CSG model or Surface mesh

Engineering Discipline: CFD, Electro Magnetic

Elements: Triangle, Tetrahedra, Wedge (Prism)

Surface Meshing: Yes

Tri/Tet Method: Delaunay, Advancing Front

Surface: Advancing front,Volume: 98 % Delaunay, Closure (if necessary) by rule based algorithm

Element Sizing Method: Manual, Automatic based on feature sizes

based on local feature size, possibilities for manual, local refinement

Other Features: Boundary Layers, Refinement

Mesh manipulations like hierarchical refinement,insertion of boundary layers (prisms), connection of unstructured surface mesh to structured mesh,

Comments:

Good capabilities for generting very coarse meshes usefulfor adaptive multilevel methods