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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 38
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper VII.9

Parallel Quadrilateral Mesh Generation

B.H.V. Topping and B. Cheng

Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
B.H.V. Topping, B. Cheng, "Parallel Quadrilateral Mesh Generation", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 297-312, 1996. doi:10.4203/ccp.38.7.9
Abstract
A parallel quadrilateral mesh generation using advanced front technology is presented in this paper. An improved quadrilateral mesh generation technology which uses the advancing front technology was introduced by the authors. This new quadrilateral mesh generation technique has been developed for use with parallel computing environments. The parallel code has been created by adapting the sequential code using each coarse quadrilateral as a sub-domain for remeshing. A transputer-based parallel system and a Parallel Virtual Machine system were employed. The use of these parallel environments to improve the efficiency of the proposed mesh generator was investigated. Some pre-processes have been introduced to ensure load balancing during the parallel mesh generation. A post processor has been developed to assist in the assembly of the distributed portions of the mesh. Four examples are presented to demonstrate the robustness and efficiency of this parallel mesh generator. Some nearly linear speed-up curves have been achieved for some large meshes by using up to eleven transputers.

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