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Title:
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Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation

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Organizers:
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Steven J. Owen
Computational Modeling Sciences Department
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Phone: (505) 284-6599
Email: sjowen@sandia.gov

Mark S. Shephard
Director, Scientific Computation Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy New York, U.S.A.
Phone: (518) 276-6795
Fax: (518) 276-4886
Email: shephard@scorec.rpi.edu 

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Minisymposium description:
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Automatic unstructured mesh generation continues to be a vital technology in computational 
field simulations. As computing technology continues to advance and modeling requirements 
become more precise, automatic mesh generation techniques must rise to fulfill ever-increasing 
and diverse expectations. This symposium is a forum for exploring and synthesizing many of 
technologies needed to develop a computational grid suitable for simulation. In addition to 
mesh generation technologies, the symposium will provide a broader forum for discussion of 
technologies relevant to the design through analysis process. Topics of interest include:

   o Surface and volume meshing algorithms
   o Mesh improvement criteria and algorithms
   o Mesh adaptation algorithms
   o Anisotropic mesh generation and adaptation
   o Dealing with geometry issues including, dirty geometry, integration with CAD and 
     high order elements
   o Mesh evolution in evolving geometry problems
   o Automatic geometric simplification techniques
   o Interesting applications of automated and adaptive analysis
   o Novel new domain discretization schemes
   o Parallel implementations and control of very large meshes
   o The Design-through-Analysis Process including data translation, automation, best 
     practices, data standards, and design for analysis issues.