Introduction to mesh generation for simulation

This course is a brief introduction to fundamental mesh generation approaches used in academic and commercial simulation. Mesh generation methods have succeeded in decomposing highly complicated domains by filling them with distributions of different types of elements such as triangles, quadrilaterals, hexahedra, tetrahedra, pyramids, and prisms. These meshing methods are used in a daily basis by computational engineers and scientists to obtain numerical predictions over complex geometrical configurations. The course introduces different types of: geometrical representations, meshing methods, element types, boundary approximations, quality measures, sizing approaches, and software packages. This is an introductory course intended to facilitate the election of the proper mesh generation methods for simulation.

By Xevi Roca, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain