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Cubit Mesh Generation ToolSuite

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Our policy is to publish all of our work, and patent portions of it.

Some CUBIT team member pages, including publications:

Additional resources:

Patents:

  • (Paving) "Automated quadrilateral surface discretization method and apparatus usable to generate mesh in a finite element analysis system," U.S. Patent 5,315,537, May 24, 1994.
  • (Whisker Weaving) "Connectivity-based, all-hexahedral mesh generation method and apparatus," U.S. Patent 5,768,156, June 16, 1998.
  • (Geode) "The all-hex Geode-template for conforming a diced tetrahedral mesh to any diced hexahedral mesh", pending, SD-6389.
  • (GraftTool) "The Graft Tool: An All-Hexahedral Transition Algorithm for Creating a Multi-Dimensional Swept Volume Mesh", pending, SD-6533.
  • (Automatic Scheme Selection) "Automatic Scheme Selection for Toolkit HEX Meshing", pending, SD-6594.

Additional Papers:

  • "A Method for Controlling Skew on Linked Surfaces", Robert A. Kerr, Steven E. Benzley, Dave White, Scott Mitchell Proceedings 8th International Meshing Roundtable, Oct 1999.
  • Ted D. Blacker, Michael B. Stephenson, `Paving: a new approach to automated quadrilateral mesh generation', Int J Numer Meth Engr, Vol 32, 811-847 (1991).
  • T. D. Blacker and M. B. Stephenson, `Paving: a new approach to automated qua drilateral mesh generation', SAND90-0249, Sandia National Laboratories, (1990).
  • M. B. Stephenson, S. A. Canann, and T. D. Blacker, `Plastering: a new approa ch to automated, 3D hexahedral mesh generation', SAND89-2192, Sandia National La boratories, (1992).
  • G. D. Sjaardema, et. al., CUBIT Mesh Generation Environment, Volume 2: Devel opers Manual, SAND94-1101, Sandia National Laboratories, (1994).
  • T. D. Blacker, FASTQ Users Manual Version 1.2, SAND88-1326, Sandia Na tional Laboratories, (1988).
  • W. A. Cook and W. R. Oakes, `Mapping methods for generating three-dimensiona l meshes', Comp. mech. eng., Volume 1, 67-72 (1982).
  • R. E. Jones, QMESH: A Self-Organizing Mesh Generation Program, SLA - 73 - 1088, Sandia National Laboratories, (1974).
  • R. E. Tipton, `Grid Optimization by Equipotential Relaxation', unpublished, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, (1990).


[Mail to:djmelan@sandia.gov] Darryl Melander

Last modified: January 11, 1999


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