CSAR Noon Seminar
Damrong Guoy, UIUC/CSAR
DATE: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
TIME: 12:00 Noon
PLACE: 2240 DCL
1304 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL
TITLE: Tools and Techniques for Mesh Repair in Rocket Simulation
ABSTRACT
The Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) conducts research
on the whole-system simulation of solid propellant rockets. Important
subsystems include solid mechanics of the propellant and fluid dynamics
of the interior flow and exhaust plume. The evolving geometry of solid
propellant and interior flow requires adaptive meshing. The adaptive
meshing techniques we use include mesh smoothing, local mesh repair,
and global remeshing. This talk will focus on local mesh repair and
global remeshing. Recently CSAR has acquired a software suite MeshSim
from Simmetrix Inc. that
includes both serial and parallel mesh adaptation tools. We will
present the capabilities of MeshSim and our plans for deploying MeshSim
in the integrated Rocstar rocket simulation code suite.
BIOGRAPHY
Damrong Guoy received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. He is currently a Research
Scientist with CSAR working in the area of computational geometry and
mesh generation. His recent published research includes work on
Delaunay mesh improvement, sliver tetrahedron removal, unstructured
space-time mesh generation, and multi-block structured mesh
generation.