Research Article

Generating Multibillion Element Unstructured Meshes on Distributed Memory Parallel Machines

Table 1

Comparison of parallel mesh generation approaches.

Approach Quality of modelling geometry

Mesh multiplication (uniform refinement) [13–15] Worst
Mesh multiplication with geometry correction [16, 17]
Geometry partitioning [9] and PMSH
Fully parallel meshing [3, 5–8, 12] Best