This year the team has organised the 64th edition of the CEA–EDF–Inria summer school, 43 participants attended to the school which took place from June 10 to June 14 at the Centre Inria of the University of Lorraine.
The aim of this summer school was to provide an overview of the automatic and semi-automatic methods currently used to generate hexahedral meshes for academic and industrial purposes. Starting from CAD-like geometric models as input data, recently developed practical and theoretical
methods for generating and manipulating hexahedral meshes were presented. In particular, the following points were addressed:
- An overview of existing (semi-)automatic methods for generating hexahedral meshes with associated quality criteria;
- A focus on different representations and methods for generating orientation fields;
- Notions of global parametrizations and their use in meshing;
- Polycube methods;
- Grid intersection methods.
An important part of the course was devoted to computer-based practical exercises to manipulate these concepts using various software packages, ranging from understanding concepts such as orientation fields to interactive generation of block-structured meshes, via mesh quality assessment.
