A lightweight interactive approach for unstructured surface mesh generation
Abstract
Purpose
The paper aims to propose a generation approach for unstructured surface mesh to speed up mesh generation.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper proposes a lightweight interactive generation approach for unstructured surface mesh and presents several key technologies to support this approach.
Findings
The experimental results show that the proposed approach is feasible for unstructured meshes and it can accelerate the mesh generation process.
Research limitations/implications
More geometric defects should be covered, and more convenient and efficient interactive means need to be provided.
Practical implications
The proposed approach and key technologies are implemented in NNW-GridStar.UG, which is the unstructured version of the mesh generation software of National Numerical Windtunnel (NNW).
Originality/value
This paper proposes a lightweight interactive approach for unstructured surface mesh generation, which can speed up mesh generation.
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Acknowledgements
This work is supported by National Numerical Windtunnel project. Thanks are due to Prof. Jianjun Chen and Julin Shan for valuable discussion.
Citation
Liu, Y., Hu, Y., Xie, D., Zhang, Y. and Chen, J. (2024), "A lightweight interactive approach for unstructured surface mesh generation", Engineering Computations, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-03-2023-0103
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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