Multiblock Grid Generation

I. Introduction.- The EUROMESH Project.- An introduction to grid generation using the multiblock approach.- II. Topology Generation.- Topology generation within CAD systems.- A topological modeller.- Advancing front technique used to generate block quadrilaterals.- III. Surface Grid Generation and Geometry Modelling.- Surface mesh generation using projections.- Generation of surface grids using elliptic PDEs.- Generation of structured meshes over complex surfaces.- Surface modelling using Coons multipatch and non-uniform rational surface.- Reparametrization of block boundary surface grids.- Aircraft surface generation.- IV. Volume Grid Generation.- Use of ONERA grid optimization method at CASA.- Multi-block mesh generation for complete aircraft configurations.- Development of 3D multi-block mesh generation tools.- Multi-block mesh optimization.- Smoothing of grid discontinuities across block boundaries.- V. Grid Optimization and Adaption Methods.- Grid adaption in computational aerodynamics.- Embedding within structured multi-block computational fluid dynamics simulation.- Adaptive mesh generation within a 2D CFD environment using optimization techniques.- Two dimensional multi-block grid optimisation by variational techniques.- Local mesh enrichment for a block structured 3D Euler solver.- The adaptation of two-dimensional multiblock structured grids using a PDE-based method.- Contribution to the development of a multiblock grid optimization and adaption code.- General grid adaptivity for flow simulation.- Error estimates and mesh adaption for a cell vertex finite volume scheme.- Multigrid methods for the acceleration and the adaptation of the transonic flow problems.