A fully automatic mesher has been developed which is capable of generating both quadrilateral and triangular elements in 2-D and on surfaces using the advancing front algorithm. This allows the formation of meshes which range from being all-quad or nearly all-quad down to all-triangular. In mixed-element meshes, the number of tri elements present is dictated by the maximum allowable level of qu...

PURPOSE: Level set methods are often used to capture interface behavior in two-phase, incompressible flow models. While level set techniques for structured computational grids have been widely investigated, approaches for unstructured meshes are less mature. This report details the formulation and implementation of a discontinuous Galerkin-based approach that is suitable for unstructured meshes...

A complete " geometry to drag-polar " analysis capability for three-dimensional high-lift configurations is described. The approach is based on the use of unstructured meshes in order to enable rapid turnaround for complicated geomtries which arise in high-lift configurations. Special attention is devoted to creating a capability for enabling analyses on highly resolved grids. Unstructured mesh...

A complete “geometry to drag-polar” analysis capability for three-dimensional high-lift configurations is described. The approach is based on the use of unstructured meshes in order to enable rapid turnaround for complicated geometries that arise in high-lift configurations. Special attention is devoted to creating a capability for enabling analyses on highly resolved grids. Unstructured meshes...

In this paper, we discuss some novel techniques for modeling sedimentation and compaction using fully unstructured meshes. The numerical modeling of the sedimentation process is a critical part of basin simulation and synthetic stratigraphy modeling. Normally, structured curvilinear meshes are used to represent sedimentary sequences to be deposited during the simulation. Using this approach, 2D...

Multigrid acceleration has been implemented for an upwind ow solver on unstructured meshes. The ow solver is a straightforward implementation of Barth and Jespersen's unstructured scheme, with least-squares linear reconstruction and a directional implementation of Venkatakr-ishnan's limiter. The multigrid scheme itself is designed to work on mesh systems which are not nested, allowing great exi...

The semi-Lagrangian method is used for advection experiments on an irregular grid. A cosine hill is advected using a speci ed ow eld corresponding to solid body rotation. A major di culty is to nd an interpolator which is at least fourth order accurate on an unstructured mesh. Such accuracy is needed for the treatment of Rossby waves in ocean models. We develop such a method using a dual krigin...