Simplifying high-order mesh generation for computational scientists
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Accepted version
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Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Computational modelling is now tightly integrated into many fields of research in science and industry. Computational fluid dynamics software, for example, gives engineers the ability to model fluid flow around complex geometries defined in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) packages, without the expense of constructing large wind tunnel experiments. However, such modelling requires translation from an initial CAD geometry to a mesh of many small elements that modelling software uses to represent the approximate solution in the numerical method. Generating sufficiently high-quality meshes for simulation is a time-consuming, iterative and error-prone process that is often complicated by the need to interact with multiple command-line tools to generate and visualise the mesh data. In this paper we describe our approach to overcoming this complexity through the addition of a meshing console to Nekkloud, a science gateway for simplifying access to the functionality of the Nektar++ spectral/hp element framework. The meshing console makes use of the NekMesh tool in Nektar++ to help reduce the complexity of the mesh generation process. It offers a web-based interface for specifying parameters, undertaking meshing and visualising results. The meshing console enables Nekkloud to offer support for a full, end-to-end simulation pipeline from initial CAD geometry to simulation results.
Date Acceptance
2018-04-18
Citation
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
ISSN
1613-0073
Publisher
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Journal / Book Title
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Author(s)
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2357/paper12.pdf
Grant Number
675008
EP/R025460/1
Source
10th International Workshop on Science Gateways
Subjects
science gateway
high-order
mesh generation
finite element method
reproducibility
Publication Status
Accepted
Start Date
2018-06-13
Finish Date
2018-06-15
Coverage Spatial
Edinburgh, Scotland