A Software Demonstration of 'rap': Preparing CAD Geometries for Overlapping Grid Generation
N. Anders Petersson · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2002
We demonstrate the application code ''rap'' which is part of the ''Overture'' library. A CAD geometry imported from an IGES file is first cleaned up and simplified to suit the needs of mesh generation. Thereafter, the topology of the model is computed and a water-tight surface triangulation is created on the CAD surface. This triangulation is used to speed up the projection of points onto the CAD surface during the generation of overlapping surface grids. From each surface grid, volume grids are grown into the domain using a hyperbolic marching procedure. The final step is to fill any remaining parts of the interior with background meshes.