The receding front method applied to hexahedral mesh generation of exterior domains

Two of the most successful methods to generate unstructured hexahedral meshes are the grid-based methods and the advancing front methods. On the one hand, the grid-based methods generate high-quality hexahedra in the inner part of the domain using an inside–outside approach. On the other hand, advan...

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Veröffentlicht in:Engineering with computers Jg. 28; H. 4; S. 391 - 408
Hauptverfasser: Ruiz-Gironés, Eloi, Roca, Xevi, Sarrate, Josep
Format: Journal Article Verlag
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London Springer-Verlag 01.10.2012
Springer Nature B.V
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ISSN:0177-0667, 1435-5663
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Zusammenfassung:Two of the most successful methods to generate unstructured hexahedral meshes are the grid-based methods and the advancing front methods. On the one hand, the grid-based methods generate high-quality hexahedra in the inner part of the domain using an inside–outside approach. On the other hand, advancing front methods generate high-quality hexahedra near the boundary using an outside–inside approach. To combine the advantages of both methodologies, we extend the receding front method: an inside–outside mesh generation approach by means of a reversed advancing front. We apply this approach to generate unstructured hexahedral meshes of exterior domains. To reproduce the shape of the boundaries, we first pre-compute the mesh fronts by combining two solutions of the Eikonal equation on a tetrahedral reference mesh. Then, to generate high-quality elements, we expand the quadrilateral surface mesh of the inner body towards the unmeshed external boundary using the pre-computed fronts as a guide.
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ISSN:0177-0667
1435-5663
DOI:10.1007/s00366-011-0233-y