QUAD - GEN

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Dr. Alexander Tsvelikh, Director

Email: comecau@smartchat.net.au

Web Site: http://www.users.bigpond.com/comecau/

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

Commercial code, ready for inclusion into full-scale commercial systems.
Supplied in the source code form only, with unlimited commercial license.

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: confid.

Pricing: various pricing options available

Platform:

ANSI C - will compile on any platform

Input: Native

Engineering Discipline: Structural, Electro Magnetic

mechanical and building engineering, electronics.

Elements: Quadrilateral

Surface Meshing: No

Quad/Hex Method: Geometry Decomposition

Element Sizing Method: Manual, Automatic based on feature sizes

Other Features: Anisotropy, Refinement

Comments:

a) Special measures taken to ensure that no singular or ill-conditioned elements are generated.
b) Fully quadrilateral - no triangles.
c) Very fast: 30000 elements in 2 mins. on Pentium 133.
d) Simple and straighforward input and output data structures.
e) Fully automatic - no user interaction required during the generation process.
f) Tends to generate a very limited number of transitional elements.
g) Supports multiply-connected and non-homogeneous domains.