Automated hexahedral meshing

一般3D对象的高质量自动体积六面体或立方体网格生成自诞生以来一直是有限元网格划分的圣杯。我们实验室开发的一种原型六边形网格算法在实现这一目标方面取得了重大进展，比以前的任何方法都能在更宽的输入范围内生成更好质量的网格。这项研究的目标是将这个初步的原型转化为一个可以演示的beta版本。我们特别计划精简当前的原型，改进软件设计，以强大地支持大型输入/输出网格，并提供用户期望的功能，这些功能虽然经过充分研究，但需要与我们的框架一起实现和测试。我们还计划与我们当前的行业联系人合作，对软件进行广泛的用户测试，既在行业提供的输入上进行内部测试，又为他们提供合适的文档，用户友好的软件版本，以便他们在内部测试。

Quality automatic volumetric hexahedral, or cuboidal, mesh generation for generic 3D objects had been the holy grail of finite-element meshing since inception. A prototype hex-meshing algorithm developed by our lab makes significant advances toward this goal, generating better quality meshes for much wider range of inputs than any previous methodology. The goal of this research is to convert this preliminary prototype into a demo ready beta-version. We specifically plan to streamline the current prototype refining the software design to robustly support large input/output meshes, and provide user-expected features, which while well-researched, require implementation and testing in conjunction with our framework. We also plan to conduct extensive user testing of the software in collaboration with our current industry contacts, both testing the software internally on industry provided inputs, and providing a suitably documents, user-friendly version of the software for them to test in house.