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The paper describes the development and investigation of tools for some of the critical steps in the creation of a multi-block structured grid. We consider elliptic-interactive generation of meshes on solid surfaces, algebraic-interactive mesh generation for individual blocks, and smoothing procedures for multi-block meshes. Interactivity is used wherever suitable to improve the user interface, and object-oriented programming is proposed as an excellent vehicle for creation of software for complex geometrical objects such as grids. The tools are applied to test configurations, and a pilot multi-block mesh generator is developed which can serve as a skeleton for further tool development.
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Oppelstrup, J., Runborg, O., Mineau, P., Weinerfelt, P., Lehtimäki, R., Arlinger, B. (1993). Development of 3D Multi-Block Mesh Generation Tools. In: Weatherill, N.P., Marchant, M.J., King, D.A. (eds) Multiblock Grid Generation. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics (NNFM), vol 44. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-87881-6_14
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