Isotropic Mesh Generation

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Sphere and Two Blades with Merging Wakes and a Symmetry Plane

  • (a) Input Surface
  • (b) cdfm: 0; #tets: 57K
  • (c) cdfm: 0.2; #tets: 58K
  • (d) cdfm: 0.6; #tets: 129K
  • (e) cdfm: 0.8; #tets: 854K
  • (f) cdfm: 0.9; #tets: 7.68M

Cuts of tetrahedral grids of a sphere generated for varied cdfm ∈ [0, 1]. Blue corresponds to larger values of the distribution function. Red corresponds to smaller values
of the distribution function.





  • (a) Input Surface
  • (b) Distribution function on the boundary
  • (c) cdfm: 0; #tets: 806K
  • (d) cdfm: 0.1; #tets: 1.41M
  • (e) cdfm: 0.2; #tets: 4.97M
  • (f) cdfm: 0.3; #tets: 16.54M

Cuts of tetrahedral grids of two blades with merging wakes and a symmetry plane enclosed in an outer boundary generated for varied cdfm ∈ [0, 1] (shown in (c)-(f)).
The input surface is depicted in (a)-(b). The wake region is modeled as an embedded/ transparent delete surface.





  • Sphere histogram.png

Element angle distribution (in 5-deg increments) of grids of sphere, for varied cdfm.
The dihedral angle extrema and the element count are reported for each grid.



  • Blades histogram.png

Element angle distribution (in 5-deg increments) of grids of two blades with
merging wakes and a symmetry plane enclosed in an outer boundary, for varied cdfm.
The dihedral angle extrema and the element count are reported for each grid.

nacelle, rocket, and lv2b pg. 122-124

  • Nacelle6.png
  • Nacelle7.png
  • Nacelle8.png
Surface grid of an aircraft nacelle with engine inside a section of wind tunnel.
#points: 27184; #triangles: 54360




  • Rocket8.png
  • Rocket6.png
Surface grid of a rocket with engine, nozzle and transparent internal data surfaces inside flow field.
#points: 20228; #triangles: 40448




  • Lv2b2.png
  • Lv2b6.png
Surface grid of a launch vehicle with solid boosters inside flow field (Lv2b).
#points: 42020; #triangles: 84024




Parameters for unstructured grid generation. Additional parameters only for CDT3D: nthreads : 12 (parallel); nthreads : 1 (sequential); nbuckets : 240; frbtransf : 0.3; cbtransf : 1.0. Additional parameters only for AFLR: mrecrbf : 0.
Geometry Software cdfm cdfn mrecm nqual csmth msmth nsmth angdfs angqual mdbs
Nacelle CDT3D 0.291 0.7 2 3 0.5 1 2 165° 120° 0
AFLR 0.50 0.7 2 3 0.5 1 2 165° 120° 0
Rocket CDT3D 0.20 0.7 2 3 0.5 1 2 165° 120° 0
AFLR 0.60 0.7 2 3 0.5 1 2 165° 120° 0
Lv2b CDT3D 0.234 0.7 2 3 0.5 1 2 165° 120° 0
AFLR 0.30 0.7 2 3 0.5 1 2 165° 120° 0

more nacelle, rocket, and lv2b pg. 125-127

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aircraft pg. 140-142