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An Automated High Aspect Ratio Mesher for Computational Fluid Dynamics

Award Information

Agency:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
 Program Year/Program:
2011 / STTR
Agency Tracking Number:
090014 		Solicitation Year:
2009 		Solicitation Topic Code:
T8.01 		Solicitation Number:
Small Business Information
Ciespace Corporation
900 Commerce Drive, Suite 201 Oak Brook, IL 60523-0036
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2011
Title: An Automated High Aspect Ratio Mesher for Computational Fluid Dynamics
Agency: NASA
Contract: NNX11CC71C
Award Amount: $599,997.00
 

Abstract:

The work will focus on the 3D implementation of the Phase 1 CHARM mesher, with solution-adaptive iteration for CFD and non-CFD applications. The proposed 3D method will incorporate and extend a previously developed method of generating field-guided hexahedral elements from a metric tensor field. While the fundamental technical approachÂ? a combination of metric tensor conditioning, metric-tracing mesher, and cell-packing mesher Â? remains the same, there are many technical challenges specific to the 3D domain, including the following: - Investigation into conditioning of volume metric tensor fields - Investigation into thetopology (structure) of volume metric tensor fields - Developing algorithms for the generation, repair, and adjustment of streamsurface arrangements - Developing algorithms to convert streamsurface arrangements to hex-dominant meshes - Developing algorithms to combine streamsurface- and packing-based meshes - Investigation into designing these algorithms for mesh adaptation rather than adaptive remeshing - Investigation of time and storage efficiency of these algorithms in a large-scale parallelism context In addition to the above, the goal is to generalize the solution in order to support its packaging and commercialization for a number of problem sets and target applications. This includes generalization of the solver-adaptive framework, creation of APIs to programatically expose core functions, and provide UI access to appropriately control and configure the application.

Principal Investigator:

Kenji Shimada
Principal Investigator
4122683614
shimada@cmu.edu

Business Contact:

John Cray
Business Official
6305448958
cray@ciespace.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

Ciespace Corporation
900 Commerce Drive, Suite 201 Oak Brook, IL 60523-0036

EIN/Tax ID: 562484513
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
Research Institution Information:
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3589
Contact: Kristen Jackson