Curved Hexahedral Block Structure Generation by Advancing Front

Research Note, Talk · 07 Mar 2024

SIAM International Meshing Roundtable Workshop 2024 (SIAM IMR 2024), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Authors: Claire Roche, Jérôme Breil, Simon Calderan, Thierry Hocquellet, Franck Ledoux

This work aims to provide a method to generate block-structured meshes suitable for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of flows around vehicles during atmospheric re-entry. This method takes as input a tetrahedral mesh of the domain, and the quadrangular block discretization of the vehicle surface. A linear blocking is obtained using an advancing front algorithm. This means it is incrementally created from the vehicle surface, layer by layer. Then, this linear blocking is curved, and we generate the final mesh. Some results of blocking and corresponding meshes generated with our algorithm are shown.

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