Overture

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Bill Henshaw

Email: overture-support@c3serve.c3.lanl.gov

Web Site: http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/Overture/

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

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: 10

Pricing: Free

Platform: UNIX

Linux

Input: Native, IGES

PLOT3D

Engineering Discipline: CFD

Elements: Quadrilateral

Surface Meshing: No

Quad/Hex Method: Structured Grid Generation

Element Sizing Method:

Other Features:

Comments:

Overture is a large C++ framework for solving PDEs on 2D and 3D (moving) geometries using overlapping grids. The overlapping grid generator can be used interactively to generate an initial grid or can be called from a program to move or adapt a grid in a time dependent computation.