Cameron Druyor

An Adaptive Hybrid Mesh Generation Method For Complex Geometries

A Thesis Presented for the Master of Science in Computational Engineering Degree, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Cameron T. Druyor, Jr.,  August 2011

Abstract:
An adaptive hybrid mesh generation method is described to automatically provide spatial discretizations suitable for computational fluid dynamics or other 2D solver applications. This method employs a hierarchical grid generation technique to create a background mesh, an extrusion-type method for inserting boundary layers, and an unstructured triangulation to stitch between the boundary layers and background mesh. This method provides appropriate mesh resolution based on geometry segments from a file, and has the capability of adapting the background mesh based on a spacing field generated from solution data or some other arbitrary source. By combining multiple approaches to the grid generation process, this method seeks to benefit from the strengths of each, while avoiding the weaknesses of each. Possible future work to increase the robustness of the method is also discussed.

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