Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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566089 | Advances in Engineering Software | 2015 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
A parallel tetrahedral mesh generator is developed using the existing sequential NETGEN mesh generator. Mesh generation algorithms developed decompose the geometry into multiple sub-geometries sequentially on a master node and then mesh each sub-geometry in parallel on multiple processors. Two methods are implemented. The first decomposes the geometry and produces conforming surface sub-meshes from which volume meshes can be generated in parallel. A second refinement based method also makes use of the CAD geometry information. A scalable mesh migration algorithm that utilizes “owner updates” rule is implemented. Results show that using the refinement based method, a mesh with a billion elements can be generated in about a minute.
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Authors
Y. Yilmaz, C. Ozturan,