An Improved Paving Method of Automatic Quadrilateral Mesh Generation

作者:Zhao, Yu; Yu, Bo*; Tao, Wenquan
来源:Numerical Heat Transfer Part B-Fundamentals, 2013, 64(3): 218-238.
DOI:10.1080/10407790.2013.797308

摘要

This article describes an improved paving method of automatic quadrilateral mesh generation. Paving, which was first proposed by Blacker and Stephenson [1], is a kind of direct method for generating a quadrilateral mesh and has been widely used since it was presented. This article aims to improve some weaknesses of the traditional paving method by generating high-quality quadrilateral grids without employment of a background mesh. Through efficient intersection resolution and other optimization measures, the improved paving method can generate well-aligned rows of quadrilateral elements almost parallel to the boundary of the domain, automatically and quickly.