Mesh Adaptation Module for Cartesian Meshes with Embedded Boundaries

摘要

This work extends the mesh generation capability of NASA's Cart3D flow simulation software package to permit cell-by-cell mesh enrichment. Cart3D allows users to perform automated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis on a complex geometry. It includes utilities for geometry import, surface modeling and intersection, mesh generation, flow simulation, and post-processing of results. Geometry enters into Cart3D in the form of surface triangu-lations that may be generated from within Computer-Aided Design (CAD) packages, from legacy surface triangulations, or from structured surface grids. Cart3D uses adaptively refined Cartesian grids to discretize the space surrounding geometry, and cuts the geometry out of the set of cut-cells that actually intersects the surface triangulation.