Hang Si, Senior Researcher, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS)

Linbo Zhang, Professor & Tao Cui, Professor

Introduction to FEM Mesh Generation and Adaptation 3

14:00-16:00 June 20(Thursday), N219

This short course focuses on the fundamental problems in finite element mesh generation, which automatically generate boundary-preserving and good quality triangular and tetrahedral meshes.  Begin with the Delaunay triangulations theory; we will describe optimal algorithms to generate good quality triangular meshes for arbitrary polygonal domains. We then move on to tetrahedral mesh generation in 3d, which has many theoretical and practical challenges. We will first review the main difficulties and their related theories in discrete and combinatorial geometry and then describe good heuristic algorithms to overcome them. Practical techniques to achieve a robust and efficient implementation will also be discussed.

Short Bio: Dr. Hang Si has spent over 20 years developing softwares and doing research in mesh generation. He developed the software, TetGen, a Delaunay-based tetrahedral mesh generator. It is freely available for academic use (http://www.tetgen.org).  

Dr. Hang Si is working as Sr. Software Architect at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. He was

Dr. Hang Si is a senior researcher at Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) in Berlin.