On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 23:18, Julie Porter wrote:

> I am not sure what CFD is, so I may be totally off base. It could be you
> just need a trigrid. The main advantage of a surface patch is that it is
> defined by only a few control points. This allows rendering at high and low
> resolutions.
> 

CFD is Computational Fluid Dynamics. The meshing that I need is actually
very similar to what you are talking about, but the requirements are a
little different. CFD is just one problem domain in Finite Element
Analysis. Basically you break up the geometry into small "bricks" and do
the basic calculations on each node of the brick. I've used fairly
simple finite element meshing routines in a previous life, but they were
commercial (read expensive), and not well suited to CFD. I'm really
hoping to find one that can read the CAD files and generate a grid based
on that. I'm not holding my breath though. 

Dave 
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