High Performance Parallel Mesh Generation and Adaption

The continuing growth of complexity in physical models and the addition of more accurate geometrical features intensifies the weight placed on mesh generation. Driven by the increase of computational speed and the availability of multi-core CPUs current programming paradigms are not sufficient anymore to fully utilize the available computational power. A high performance mesh generation approach overcomes these difficulties by suitably combining multiple programming paradigms and following modern design guidelines. Parallelization and robustness of the algorithm are facilitated by employing a rigorous surface treatment, which not only enforces prescribed quality criteria such as the Delaunay property, but also allows to decouple the subsequent parallel meshing steps. We present a parallel advancing front algorithm capable of creating Delaunay conforming meshes.