Parallel Linear Octree Meshing with Immersed Surfaces

Abstract

A parallel octree-based mesh generation method is proposed to create reasonable-quality, geometry-adapted unstructured hexahedral meshes automatically from triangulated surface models. We present algorithms for the construction, 2:1 balancing and meshing large linear octrees on distributed memory machines. Our scheme uses efficient computer graphics algorithms for surface detection, allowing us to represent complex geometries. Is granular analysis is performed on a variety of input surfaces and demonstrates good scalability. Our implementation is able to execute the 2:1 balancing operations over 4.0e08 octants on 128 cores in less than 10 seconds per 2e05 octants/core.