Methods for Multisweep Automation
Jason F. Shepherd, Scott A. Mitchell, Patrick Knupp, David R. White · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2000
Sweeping has become the workhorse algorithm for creating conforming hexahedral meshes of complex models. This paper describes progress on the automatic, robust generation of MultiSwept meshes in CUBIT. MultiSweeping extends the class of volumes that may be swept to include those with multiple source and multiple target surfaces. While not yet perfect, CUBIT's MultiSweeping has recently become more reliable, and been extended to assemblies of volumes. Sweep Forging automates the process of making a volume (multi) sweepable: Sweep Verification takes the given source and target surfaces, and automatically classifies curve and vertex types so that sweep layers are well formed and progress from sources to targets. Keywords: hexahedral mesh generation, sweeping, and automation. 1 Patrick Knupp and Scott A. Mitchell were supported by the Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences Division of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Research. All of the authors work at Sand...