The paper discusses the effort carried out at VNIIEF to consider the applicability of unstructured Lagrange meshes to multidimensional continuum mechanics problems with high shear strain and vortex flows. Three finite-difference numerical techniques for solving continuum mechanics problems on polyhedral unstructured Lagrange meshes are described. Examples of numerical calculations of benchmark ...

In this paper we review the procedures which are currently available for the generation of unstructured meshes suitable for use in the simulation of high Reynolds number viscous ows. For such simulations, computational eeciency generally dictates the requirement for the use of highly stretched cells in viscous dominated regions. Meshes of this type cannot be directly generated by the classical ...

Most ocean models in current use are built upon structured meshes. It follows that most existing tools for extracting diagnostic quantities (volume and surface integrals, for example) from ocean model output are constructed using techniques and software tools which assume structured meshes. The greater complexity inherent in unstructured meshes (especially fully unstructured grids which are uns...

Unstructured tetrahedral grids are a common data representation of three-dimensional scalar fields. For convex unstructured meshes efficient rendering methods are known. For concave or cyclic meshes, however, a significant overhead is required to sort the grid cells in back to front order. In this paper we apply methods known from computational geometry to transform concave into convex grids. W...

This paper puts forward 3D model retrieval method based on normal-angle histogram. The method firstly makes the pretreatment for 3D model, and defines the calculation method of the normal at every vertex of the triangular mesh in 3D model and the included angle among the triangular meshes. Then it classifies the triangular mesh in accordance with the normal at three vertexes of the triangular m...

We study the simplification of triangular and tetrahedral meshes using techniques based on successive edge collapses, as well as the exploitation of the generated multiple levels of detail for the effective processing of the models. Regarding triangular meshes, we present a method for the construction of progressive hulls, by suitable edge collapses; we use the generated hulls for the accelerat...