Keynote Address
Dr. Paul Messina, Department of Energy, DP-15, Washington, DC
Session 1 - PLENARY
1a - Meshing Quality (Invited)
Pat Knupp - Sandia National Laboratories
1b - Elliptic Grid Control on a Discrete Level
Peter Niederdrenk, Olaf Brodersen - DLR Institute for Fluid Dynamics
& Design Aerodynamics
1c - Constrained Triangulation: Application
to Hex-Dominant Mesh Generation
Steven J. Owen - Ansys, Inc.
Session 2A - Software Engineering
2a1 - Isolating Geometry in Mesh Programming
R. Bruce Simpson - University of Waterloo
2a2 - Simultaneous Mesh Generation and Partitioning
for Delaunay Meshes
Nikos Chrisochoides, Démian Nave - University of Notre
Dame
2a3 - Parallel Advancing Front Grid Generation
Rainald Löhner, Juan R. Cebral - George Mason University,
Computational Sciences & Informatics
2a4 - Mesh Association: Formulation and Algorithms
Xiangmin Jiao, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Michael T. Heath - University
of Illinois
Session 2B - Triangular/Tetrahedral
Meshing I
2b1 - Biting Spheres in 3D
Xiang-Yang Li, Shang-Hua Teng, Alper Üngör - University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2b2 - Biting Ellipses to Generate Anisotropic
Mesh
Xiang-Yang Li, Shang-Hua Teng, Alper Üngör - University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2b3 - On Adaptive Mesh Generation in Two-Dimensions
E. F. D'Azevedo - Oakridge National Laboratory
2b4 - Three-dimensional Constrained Delaunay
Triangulation: a Minimalist Approach
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Ulisses T. Mello - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions
Discussion and issues for Birds of a Feather Session:
Mesh Quality, Geometry, Hex Meshing, Tet Meshing, Structured Meshing
Session 3 - Plenary II
3a - Tet Meshing - (Invited)
Paul Louis George - Inria, Inc.
3b - Adaptive Hybrid Grid Methods
Aly Khawaja, Tommy Minyard, Yannis Kallinderis - University of
Texas at Austin
3c - Gridgen's Implementation of Partial Differential
Equation Based Structured Grid Generation Methods
John Steinbrenner, John Chawner - Pointwise, Inc.
Session 4A - Structured
and Overset Grids
4a1 - A Deformation Method for Moving
Grid Generation
Guojun Liao, Gary de la Peña, - University of Texas at
Arlington
Guojao Liao - East Los Angeles College
4a2 - The Applications of an Unstructured Grid
Based Overset Grid Scheme to Applied Aerodynamics
Thomas C. Wey - Hernandez Engineering Inc.
4a3 - Generation of Quad-and Hex-Dominant Semistructured
Meshes Using an Advancing Layer Scheme
David S. Thompson, Bharat K. Soni - Missippi State University
4a4 - A Multi-Block Orthogonal Grid Generation
Using CAD System
Vladimir V. Chudanov, Anna E. Aksenova, Valerii A. Pervichko,
Alexander G. Churbanov, Irina G. Plotnikova, Vladimir V. Varenkov,
Petr N. Vabishchevich - Nuclear Safety Institute, Moscow
Session 4B - Tri/Tet II
4b1 - A Direct Smoothing Method for
Surface Meshes
Bala Balendran - CAE PBU, Unigraphics Solutions
4b2 - How to Subdivide Pyramids, Prisms and
Hexahedra into Tetrahedra
Julien Dompierre, Paul Labbé, Marie-Gabrielle Vallet, Ricardo
Camarero - CERCA, Canada
4b3 - LEPP-Delaunay Algorithm: a Robust Tool
for Producing Size-Optimal Quality Triangulations
Maria-Cecilia Rivara, Nancy Hitschfeld - University of Chile
4b4 - Controlling 2D Voronoi-Segment Methods
Harri Hakula - Helsinki University of Technology
Session 5A - Mesh Quality
5a1 - Asymptotic Behavior of the Average
of the Adjacencies of the Topological Entities in Some Simple
Partitions
Angel Plaza - University of Las Palmas de Gran Cararia
5a2 - Simple Mesh Examples to Illustrate Specific
Finite Element Mesh Requirements
Peter Fleischmann, Robert Kosik, Siegfried Selberherr - Institute
for Microelectronics, Austria
5a3 - Tetrahedral Element Shape Optimization
via the Jacobian Determinant and Condition Number
Lori A. Freitag - Argonne National Laboratory,
Patrick M. Knupp - Sandia National Laboratories
5a4 - Evaporation: a Technique for Visualizing
Mesh Quality
Lisa Durbeck - University of Utah
Session 5B - Geometry
5b1 - Volume Decomposition and Feature
Recognition for Hexahedral Mesh Generation
Yong Lu, Rajit Gadh - University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Timothy J. Tautges - Sandia National Laboratories
5b2 - Clustering Large Number of Faces for
2-Dimensional Mesh Generation
Keisuke Inoue, Takayuki Itoh, Atsushi Yamada, Tomotake Furuhata
- IBM Japan Ltd.,
Kenji Shimada - Carnegie Mellon University
5b3 - Design Optimization by Incremental Modification
of Model Topology
Cecil G. Armstrong, Barry Bradley - The Queen's University, Ireland
5b4 - Methods and Algorithms of Automated CAD
Repair for Incremental Surface Meshing
Andrey A. Mezentsev - Swiss Center for Scientific Computer, Switzerland,
Thomas Woehler - FhG-IPK, Germany
Session 6A - Applications
6a1 - Grid Adaptation for Gas Dynamic
and Astrophysical Flows
Igor E. Ivanov, Igor A. Kryukov, Nikolai V. Pogorelov - Moscow
Aviation Institute
6a2 - From Medical Images to CFD Meshes
J. R. Cebral, Rainald Löhner - George Mason University
6a3 - Tracking the Front of Moving Boundaries
Using Grid Generation Techniques
Anwei Liu, Matthias Horlacher - Silvaco International
6a4 - A Reproducible Approach to Unstructured
Mesh Generation for Shallow Water Models
Scott C. Hagen, Robert J. Bennett - University of Central Florida,
Olaf Horstmann - Brandenburg Technolgical University, Germany
6B - Quadrilateral/Hexahedral
Meshing
6b1 - Automatic Remeshing with Hexahedral
Elements: Problems, Solutions and Applications
Peter Kraft - Femutec GmbH, Germany
6b2 - Unstructured 20-Node Brick Element Meshing
Guido D. Dhondt - MTU, Germany
6b3 - A Method for Controlling Skew on Linked
Surfaces
Robert A. Kerr, Steven E. Benzley - Brigham Young University,
David White, Scott Mitchell - Sandia National Laboratories
6b4 - The Graft Tool: An All-Hexahedral Transition
Algorithm for Creating a Multi-Directional Swept Volume Mesh
Steven R. Jankovich, Steven E. Benzley - Brigham Young University,
Jason F. Shepherd, Scott A. Mitchell - Sandia National Laboratories
Session 7 - Plenary III
7a - Industrial Applications (invited)
Harley Wattrick - Ford Motor Co.
7b - Unstructured Surface Grid Generation Using
Global Mapping and Physical Space Approximation
David L. Marcum, J. Adam Gaither - Mississippi State University
7c - Curvilinear Mesh Generation in 3D
Saikat Dey - SFA Inc.,
Robert M. O'Bara, Mark S. Shephard - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Panel Discussion
Mesh Quality, Geometry, Hex Meshing, Tet Meshing, Structured Meshing