October 13-15, 1997
Park City, Utah, U.S.A.
Sponsored
by
Sandia National Laboratories
Session 1 - Plenary I
1a - Quadrilateral Meshing by Circle Packing
Marshall Bern and David Eppstein
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1b - Hybrid Prismatic/Tetrahedral Grids for Turbomachinery
Applications
Yannis Kallinderis, Aly Khawaja, and Harlan McMorris
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1c - High Fidelity Interval Assignment
Scott Mitchell
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Session 2A - Geometry and Visualization
2a1 - An Immersive Environment for Exploration of CUBIT Meshes
Constantine Pavlakos, Jake Jones, and Scott Mitchell
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2a2 - Virtual Topology Operators for Meshing
Alla Sheffer, Ted Blacker, Jan Clements, and Michel Bercovier
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2a3 - An Object-Oriented Virtual Geometry Interface
Malcolm Panthaki, Raikanta Sahn, and Walter Gerstle
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Session 2B - Triangular Meshing
2b1 - Ball-Packing Method: A New Approach for Quality Automatic Triangluation
of Arbitrary Domains
Jianfei Liu and Rongxi Tang
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2b2 - A Mathematical Basis for Automated Grid Generation with Close
Coupling to the Flow Solver
Daniel Barnette
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2b3 - Delaunay Triangulation for Curved Surfaces
Hao Chen and Jonathan Bishop
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Session 3A - Sizing/Gradation/Optimization
3a1 - Mesh Gradation Control
Houman Borouchaki and Frederic Hecht
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3a2 - Neighborhood-Based Element Sizing Control for Finite Element Surface Meshing
Steve Owen
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3a3 - A Global Optimization to Quadrilateral Meshing
Joseph Jung, Clark Dohrmann, Walt Witkowski, Paul Wolfenbarger, Walter
Gerstle, Scott Mitchell, Malcolm Panthaki, and Dan Segalman
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3a4 - Use of Boundary Integral Method to Determine Local
Characteristic Feature Size of Geometric Domains
Walter Gerstle, Joseph Jung, Walter Witkowski, and Malcolm Panthaki
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Session 3B - Advancing Front Techniques and Structured Meshes
3b1 - Redesign of the Paving Algorithm: Robustness Enhancements through
Element by Element Meshing
David White and Paul Kinney
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3b2 - Combining Quadrilateral and Triangular Meshing using the Advancing
Front Approach
Matthew Rees
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3b3 - Towards an Adaptive Advancing Front Method
Eric Seveno
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Session 4 - Plenary II
4a - Automatic Hexahedral Mesh Generation by Recursive Convex
and Swept Volume Decomposition
Shang-Sheng Liu and Rajit Gahd
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4b - An Interpreted Language and System for the Visualization
of Unstructured Meshes
Patrick Moran
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4c - Effect of Mesh Quality on Solution Efficiency
Lori Freitag and Carl Ollivier-Gooch
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Session 5A - Hex Dominant Meshing
5a1 - Generating Hexahedron-Dominant Mesh Based on Shrinking-Mapping Method
Weidong Min
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5a2 - The ``HexTet'' Hex-Dominant Automesher: An Interim Progress Report
Philip Tuchinsky and Brett Clark
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5a3 - An Algorithm for the Generation of Hexahedral Element Meshes based on an
Octree Technique
Robert Schneiders
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Session 5B - Quad Meshing
5b1 - Unstructured Surface Meshing using Operators
Soo-Won Chae and Jung-Hwan Jeong
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5b2 - High Quality Quadrilateral Surface Meshing without Template
Restrictions: A New Approach Based on Network Flow Techniques
Matthias Muller-Hannemann
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5b3 - Quadrilateral Mesh Generation based on a Variational Method
Dietrich Nowottny
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Session 6A - Tetrahedral Meshing
6a1 - Adaptive Simplicial Grids from Cross-sections of Monotone Complexes
Herbert Edelsbrunner and Roman Waupotitsch
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6a2 - Pattern Recognition and Shape-Specific Meshing for
Generating All Hexahedral Meshes
Bih-Yaw Shih and Hiroshi Sakurai
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6a3 - Three-Dimensional Delaunay Mesh Generation Using a Modified
Advancing Front Approach
Peter Fleischmann and Siegfried Selberherr
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Session 6B - Quality 1
6b1 - Surface Mesh Evaluation
Pascal Frey and Houman Borouchaki
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6b2 - Anisotropic Triangular Meshing of Parametric Surfaces
via Close Packing of Ellipsoidal Bubbles
Kenji Shimada, Atsushi Yamada, and Takayuki Itoh
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6b3 - Non-obtuse Boundary Delaunay Triangulations
Nancy Hitschfeld and M. Cecilia Rivara
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Session 7A - Industry
7a1 - Industrial Requirements and Practices in Finite Element
Meshing: A Survey of Trends
Marc Halpern
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7a2 - Automotive Industry Needs for Versatile Meshing Tools
Harley Wattrick and Don Dewhirst
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7a3 - Aerospace Industry Needs
Tim Wilson
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Session 7B - Quality II
7b1 - A Solution Based Triangular and Tetrahedral Mesh Quality Indicator
Martin Berzins
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7b2 - Comparative Study of Unstructured Meshes Made of Triangles
and Quadrilaterals
Anish Malanthara and Walter Gerstle
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7b3 - Clean-Up: Improving Quadrilateral Finite Element Meshes
Paul Kinney
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