Sculpt: Automatic Parallel Hexahedral Mesh Generation
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sculpt is a companion application to Cubit designed to run in parallel for generating all-hex meshes of complex geometry. It uses a unique overlay-grid procedure that extracts surfaces from a volume-fraction representation of the geometry. This allows for fast, automatic, fault-tolerant meshing in a high-performance computing (HPC) environment. Although Sculpt can be driven from Cubit as a GUI front-end, Sculpt was developed as a separate application so that it can be run independently from Cubit on HPC computing platforms. It was also designed as a separable software library so it can be easily integrated as an in-situ meshing solution within other codes. This work provides a brief technical discussion of the algorithms used in Sculpt as well as a complete user's manual. It includes details of the Cubit interface to Sculpt and the complete manual for the stand-alone application, including examples.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 1762652
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--2019-6412; 676086
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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