An isotropic unstructured mesh generation method based on a fluid relaxation analogy

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an unstructured mesh generation method based on Lagrangian-particle fluid relaxation, imposing a global optimization strategy. With the presumption that the geometry can be described as a zero level set, an adaptive isotropic mesh is generated by three steps. First, three characteristic fields based on three modeling equations are computed to define the target mesh-vertex distribution, i.e. target feature-size function and density function. The modeling solutions are computed on a multi-resolution Cartesian background mesh. Second, with a target particle density and a local smoothing-length interpolated from the target field on the background mesh, a set of physically-motivated model equations is developed and solved by an adaptive-smoothing-length Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The relaxed particle distribution conforms well with the target functions while maintaining isotropy and smoothness inherently. Third, a parallel fast Delaunay triangulation method is developed based on the observation that a set of neighboring particles generates a locally valid Voronoi diagram at the interior of the domain. The incompleteness of near domain boundaries is handled by enforcing a symmetry boundary condition. A set of two-dimensional test cases shows the feasibility of the method. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method produces high-quality globally optimized adaptive isotropic meshes even for high geometric complexity.