2nd Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation

August 4-6, 1999
University of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder, CO

Official Symposium Schedule (PDF format)

Abstract Submission for the Symposium is now Closed
The list of accepted abstracts is now available on this site as well as a keyword index to the abstracts.

Special Journal Edition

A special edition of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering was published from this conference. September 10-20 2000. Vol. 49 No 1,2

Scope of Symposium

Abstracts and papers are invited dealing with all aspects of unstructured mesh generation, including, but not limited to:

all-hex or hex-dominant meshing
mesh sweeping
tet meshing
tri or quad surface meshing
mesh strategies for shape optimization
mesh control schemes
adaptive meshing algorithms
a priori mesh quality improvement
geometry decomposition
repair and/or simplification techniques for CAD geometry
parallel implementations
p-element (coarse) meshing
mesh smoothing
large mesh manipulation and storage.

Abstract Submission

Abstracts are required for the conference and will be included in the conference proceedings. For format information, see: http://bechtel.colorado.edu/usccm99/Abstracts.d/Instructions.html

Submit a one page electronic version of your abstract by January 5, 1999 to Dr. Scott A. Canann, scott.canann@ansys.com Feel free to call (724) 514-2981, if you have any questions. You can also ftp them to anonymous ftp: ftp.ansys.com (login: anonymous password: email address Place the file in /pub/mesh) and send an email to Dr. Scott Canann to let know him that it is there.

Paper Submission

For inclusion in this symposia, full length papers (in addition to the one page abstract) are requested, but not required. While the conference proceedings will only contain abstracts, a collection of the final papers are tentatively planned to be combined into a special edition of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. All papers must be submitted by March 29, 1999.

Submitted papers should conform to guidlines outlined by International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. See Instructions for Authors at: http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0029-5981/authors.html. Electronic papers should be submitted to Dr. Scott Canann via email or anonymous ftp.

EMAIL OR FTP SUBMISSION OF A POSTSCRIPT FILE IS REQUIRED FOR BOTH THE ABSTRACT AND THE PAPER.

Important Dates

Abstracts Due	January 5 1999
Notification of Acceptance of Abstracts	March 15 1999
Papers Due	March 29 1999
Abstracts in Final Form for printing	May 15 1999
Early Registration Deadline	June 15 1999
US National Congress on Computational Mechanics	August 4-6 1999
Short Course	August 7 1999

Symposium Co-chairs

Scott A. Canann, Ph.D.
Distinguished Member Technical Staff
Ansys Inc.
Adjuct Faculty Member
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon Unversity
Phone: (724) 514-2981
Email: scott.canann@ansys.com

Sunil Saigal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon Unversity
Phone: (412) 268-2077
Email: saigal+@andrew.cmu.edu

Steve J. Owen
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon Unversity
Senior Member Technical Staff
Ansys Inc.
Phone: (724) 514-3093
Email: steve.owen@ansys.com

Additional Information

Additional information on the conference can be found at: http://bechtel.colorado.edu/usccm99/

steve.owen@ansys.com