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Contents

• Preface
• List of Figures
• 1 Two-dimensional mesh generation
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Methodology
  • 1.3 Main ideas
    • 1.3.1 The NOPO data structure
    • 1.3.2 Introduction of a curve
    • 1.3.3 Modification of the numbers
    • 1.3.4 Definition of the nodes
  • 1.4 The module APNOPO
    • 1.4.1 General presentation
    • 1.4.2 APNOPO flowchart
    • 1.4.3 Implementation
      • Calling, libraries and files
      • Keywords
    • 1.4.4 A complete example
      • The data file:
    • 1.4.5 Abbreviated list of the keywords
  • The EMC˛ preprocessor
    • 1.5.1 General remarks
      • The CONSTRUCTION application
      • The PREP_MESH application
      • The EDIT_MESH application
      • A very simple detailed example
      • A less trivial example
    • 1.5.2 The global menus
      • Selection menus
        • Shortcuts
        • Practical utilization
      • The calculator menu
      • The general menu
        • Exiting the program
        • Querying the database
        • Destructing elements of the database
        • Saving the database
        • Restoring the database
        • Resetting
        • Printing the screen
        • Redrawing the window on another graphic peripheral device
        • Executing a system command
        • Saving a run
        • Reexecuting a run
        • Moving to the CONSTRUCTION application
        • Moving to the PREP_MESH application
        • Moving to the EDIT_MESH application
      • The screen management menu
        • Enlarging the display
        • Reducing the display
        • Translating the graphic window
        • Defining a scale
        • Redrawing the graphic window
        • Centering the display
        • Redrawing the previous display
        • Redrawing the next display
        • Drawing the whole display
    • 1.5.3 The construction application
      • Presentation
      • Utilization
        • Meta-syntax of description of the operations
        • Modification of the state of the system
        • Construction of points
        • Construction of straight lines
        • Construction of circles
        • Construction of arcs
        • Construction of segments
        • Construction of splines
        • Geometrical transformations
        • Rounding off angles
        • Defining a contour
        • Reversing segments or arcs
        • Complementing arcs
        • Inverting elements
        • Cutting one element with another?
        • Changing part of an element
        • Adding elements
        • Merging two elements
    • The PREP_MESH application
      • Presentation
      • Utilization
        • Modification of the state of the system
        • Definition of intermediate points
        • Definition of the ratio
        • Definition of the reference number of extremities
        • Definition of the line reference number
        • Cracking lines
        • Uncracking lines
        • Definition of a subdomain reference number
        • Defining a domain
        • Adding interior elements to a domain
        • Verification of the correct definition of a domain
        • Removing elements from a domain
        • Meshing mode of a domain
        • Partition mode for a quadrangular domain
        • Visualization of domains or components
        • Generating an APNOXX input file
    • The EDIT_MESH application
      • Presentation
      • General remarks
        • Definition of the state variables of the application
      • Editing the mesh
        • Moving a vertex
        • Adding a vertex to the mesh
        • Suppressing a vertex to the mesh
        • Reversing an edge of the mesh
        • Delaunay mesh
        • Regularizing the mesh
        • Triangulating
        • Quadrangulating
        • Cracking
        • Modifying the mesh references
        • Renumbering vertices
      • The transformations
        • Translation
        • Symmetry
        • Rotation
        • Homothety
        • Effectively generating the transformations
        • An example of transformation
    • 1.5.6 Example
      • The unit square with a hole
        • Construction of the unit square with a hole
        • Definition of the boundary discretization
        • Generating and saving the mesh
      • A NACA0012 wing
        • Introduction
        • Constructing the geometry
        • Discretization of the contours
        • Generating and editing the mesh
    • 1.5.7 Limitations and bugs
    • 1.5.8 Internal data structure
      • Description of the DB for the CONSTRUCTION application
      • Description of the DB for the PREP MESH application
        • Description of the list of elements passing through point i
        • Description of the list of components
        • Description of the list of domains
      • Description of the DB for the EDIT_MESH application
      • Description of AM, AM_FMT, AMDBA meshes
        • AM files
        • AM_FMT files
        • AMDBA files
    • 1.5.9 Index
• Index
• 2 Three-dimensional mesh generation (1)
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Methodology
  • 2.3 Main ideas
    • 2.3.1 The NOPO data structure
    • 2.3.2 Modification of the numbers
    • 2.3.3 Definition of the nodes
  • 2.4 General presentation of module APNOP3
  • 2.5 APNOP3 flowchart
  • 2.6 Implementation of module APNOP3
    • 2.6.1 Calling, libraries and files
    • 2.6.2 Keywords
  • 2.7 A complete example
  • 2.8 Abbreviated list of the keywords
• 3 Three-dimensional mesh generation (2)
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Multi-block method
    • 3.2.1 Quick description of the method
    • 3.2.2 Calling of module COLIB2
    • 3.2.3 Calling of the derived modules
      • COLIBT: tetrahedral case
      • COLIBP: pentahedral case
      • COLIBH: hexahedral case
    • 3.2.4 Module COLIBR
    • 3.2.5 Preprocessor COLIXX
    • 3.2.6 Some utilization examples
  • 3.3 Extrusion method (cylindrical topology)
    • 3.3.1 Quick description of the method
    • 3.3.2 Simplified version
    • 3.3.3 Data definition
      • Construction of the sections
      • Construction of the layers
      • Options
      • The physical attributes
    • 3.3.4 Calling of module MA2D3E
    • 3.3.5 The preprocessor MA23XX
    • 3.3.6 Examples of use
  • 3.4 Method for a hexahedral topology
    • 3.4.1 Quick description of the method
    • 3.4.2 Description of the input data
    • 3.4.3 Calling of module GEL3D1
      • Description of the data
      • Calling the module
    • 3.4.4 Examples of use
• 4 List of the modules
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Mesh generation modules
  • 4.3 Mesh modification modules
• 5 Tutorial examples
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 A two-dimensional example
    • 5.2.1 Top-down analysis
    • 5.2.2 Bottom-up construction
  • 5.3 A three-dimensional example
    • 5.3.1 Top-down analysis and mesh of the starting section
    • 5.3.2 Construction of a three-dimensional mesh
• References