gridpak

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: Kate Hedstrom

Email: kate@ahab.rutgers.edu

Web Site: http://marine.rutgers.edu/po/gridpak.html

Availability: Research Code

Customer Support: No

Approximate Number of Users: 50-200

Pricing: Free

Platform: UNIX (X11)

Matlab

Input: Native

Engineering Discipline:

Oceanography

Elements: Quadrilateral

Surface Meshing: No

Quad/Hex Method: Structured Grid Generation

Ives and Zacharias conformal mapping

Element Sizing Method: Manual

manual control of two adjacent edges

Other Features:

Interactive tool that displays coastlines for a limited set of (conformal) map projections so that a grid can be built for a specified part of the world.

Comments:

A matlab version of this tool is available from Rich Signell (rsignell@crusty.er.usgs.gov).