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This paper shows that constraint programming techniques can successfully be used to solve challenging hex-meshing problems. Schneiders' pyramid is a square-based pyramid whose facets are subdivided into three or four quadrangles by adding…
This paper tackles the challenging problem of constrained hexahedral meshing. An algorithm is introduced to build combinatorial hexahedral meshes whose boundary facets exactly match a given quadrangulation of the topological sphere. This…
The request for high-quality solutions continually grows in a world where more and more tasks are executed through computers. This also counts for fields such as engineering, computer graphics, etc., which use meshes to solve their…
Indirect hex-dominant meshing methods rely on the detection of adjacent tetrahedra an algorithm that performs this identification and builds the set of all possible combinations of tetrahedral elements of an input mesh T into hexahedra,…
Conforming hexahedral (hex) meshes are favored in simulation for their superior numerical properties, yet automatically decomposing a general 3D volume into a conforming hex mesh remains a formidable challenge. Among existing approaches,…
The use of pyramid elements is crucial to the construction of efficient hex-dominant meshes. For conforming nodal finite element methods with mixed element types, it is advantageous for nodal distributions on the faces of the pyramid to…
Hexahedral meshes are an ubiquitous domain for the numerical resolution of partial differential equations. Computing a pure hexahedral mesh from an adaptively refined grid is a prominent approach to automatic hexmeshing, and requires the…
Two important classes of three-dimensional elements in computational meshes are hexahedra and tetrahedra. While several efficient methods exist that convert a hexahedral element to a tetrahedral elements, the existing algorithm for…
The Finite Element Method (FEM) is widely used to solve discrete Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in engineering and graphics applications. The popularity of FEM led to the development of a large family of variants, most of which…
In this paper, we propose an improved singularity structure simplification method for hexahedral (hex) meshes using a weighted ranking approach. In previous work, the selection of to-be-collapsed base complex sheets/chords is only based on…
The regular polyhedra have the highest order of 3D symmetries and are exceptionally at- tractive templates for (self)-assembly using minimal types of building blocks, from nano-cages and virus capsids to large scale constructions like glass…
The main purpose of this article is to develop a novel refinement strategy for four-dimensional hybrid meshes based on cubic pyramids. This optimal refinement strategy subdivides a given cubic pyramid into a conforming set of congruent…
HEXME consists of tetrahedral meshes with tagged features, and of a workflow to generate them. The main purpose of HEXME meshes is to enable consistent and fair evaluation of hexahedral meshing algorithms and related techniques. The…
In this article, we provide a detailed survey of techniques for hexahedral mesh generation. We cover the whole spectrum of alternative approaches to mesh generation, as well as post processing algorithms for connectivity editing and mesh…
In this paper, we extend our earlier polycube-based all-hexahedral mesh generation method to hexahedral-dominant mesh generation, and present the HexDom software package. Given the boundary representation of a solid model, HexDom creates a…
Standard PolyCube-based hexahedral (hex) meshing methods aim to deform the input domain into an axis-aligned PolyCube volume with integer corners; if this deformation is bijective, then applying the inverse map to the voxelized PolyCube…
The forest-of-refinement-trees approach allows for dynamic adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) at negligible cost. While originally developed for quadrilateral and hexahedral elements, previous work established the theory and algorithms for…
We introduce an integrated meshing and finite element method pipeline enabling black-box solution of partial differential equations in the volume enclosed by a boundary representation. We construct a hybrid hexahedral-dominant mesh, which…
We present a new fully automatic block-decomposition hexahedral meshing algorithm capable of producing high quality meshes that strictly preserve feature curve networks on the input surface and align with an input surface cross-field. We…
In this paper, we introduce a new 3D hex mesh visual analysis system that emphasizes poor-quality areas with an aggregated glyph, highlights overlapping elements, and provides detailed boundary error inspection in three forms. By supporting…