HexDom is one open source software package to extend the polycube-based method to hex-dominant mesh generation. The copyright of this code belongs to Prof. Yongjie Jessica Zhang's group in Carnegie Mellon University.
Developers: Yuxuan Yu and Yongjie Jessica Zhang.
Model design and testing: Jialei Ginny Liu.
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Zhang, Y., Bajaj, C.L., Xu, G.: Surface smoothing and quality improvement of quadrilateral/hexahedral meshes with geometric flow. Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering 25(1), 1–18 (2009)
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Qian, J., Zhang, Y., Wang, W., Lewis, A.C., Qidwai, M.A.S., Geltmacher, A.B.: Quality improvement of non-manifold hexahedral meshes for critical feature determination of microstructure materials. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 82(11), 1406–1423 (2010)
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Zhang, Y., Wang, W., Hughes, T.J.R.: Solid T-spline construction from boundary representations for genus-zero geometry. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 249, 185–197 (2012)
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Qian, J., Zhang, Y.: Automatic unstructured all-hexahedral mesh generation from B-Reps for non-manifold CAD assemblies. Engineering with Computers 28(4), 345–359 (2012)
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Wang, W., Zhang, Y., Xu, G., Hughes, T.J.R.: Converting an unstructured quadrilateral/hexahedral mesh to a rational T-spline. Computational Mechanics 50(1), 65–84 (2012)
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Wang, W., Zhang, Y., Liu, L., Hughes, T.J.R.: Trivariate solid T-spline construction from boundary triangulations with arbitrary genus topology. Computer Aided Design 45(2), 351–360 (2013)
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Liu, L., Zhang, Y., Hughes, T.J., Scott, M.A., Sederberg, T.W.: Volumetric T-spline construction using Boolean operations. Engineering with Computers 30(4), 425–439 (2014)
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Liu, L., Zhang, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, W.: Feature-preserving T-mesh construction using skeletonbased polycubes. Computer Aided Design 58, 162–172 (2015)
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Lai, Y., Liu, L., Zhang, Y., Chen, J., Fang, E., Lua, J.: Rhino 3D to Abaqus design-throughanalysis: A T-spline based IGA software platform. The Edited Volume of the Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology Book Series Devoted to AFSI 2014 - A Birthday Celebration Conference for Tayfun Tezduyar. Springer (2015)
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Hu, K., Zhang, Y.J.: Centroidal Voronoi tessellation based polycube construction for adaptive all-hexahedral mesh generation. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 305, 405–421 (2016)
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Zhang, Y.: Geometric Modeling and Mesh Generation from Scanned Images. Chapman and Hall/CRC (2016)
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Lai, Y., Zhang, Y.J., Liu, L., Wei, X., Fang, E., Lua, J.: Integrating CAD with Abaqus: A practical isogeometric analysis software platform for industrial applications. Computers and Mathematics with Applications 74(7), 1648–1660 (2017)
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Wei, X., Zhang, Y., Hughes, T.J.R.: Truncated hierarchical tricubic C0 spline construction on unstructured hexahedral meshes for isogeometric analysis applications. Computers and Mathematics with Applications 74(9), 2203–2220 (2017)
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Y. Yu, X. Wei, A. Li, J. G. Liu, J. He and Y. J. Zhang: HexGen and Hex2Spline: Polycube-based Hexahedral Mesh Generation and Spline Modeling for Isogeometric Analysis Applications in LS-DYNA. Submitted to Springer INdAM Series, 2020.
If you find this code helpful in conducting research projects, we would appreciate a citation to the following article:
Y. Yu, J. G. Liu, and Y. J. Zhang: HexDom: Polycube-based Hexahedral-dominant Mesh Generation. Submitted to SEMA SIMAI Series, 2020.