Abstract.
Take a hexahedral mesh and an adjoining tetrahedral mesh that splits each boundary quadrilateral into two triangles. Separate the meshes with a buffer layer of hexes. Dice the original hexes into eight, and the tetrahedra into four hexahedra. Then I show that the buffer layer hexes can be filled with the geode-template, creating a conforming all-hex mesh of the entire model. The geode-template is composed of 26 hexahedra. The hexahedra have acceptable quality, depending on the geometry of the buffer layer. The method used to generate the geode-template is general, based on interleaving completed dual surfaces, and might be extended to other transition problems.
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Mitchell, S. The All-Hex Geode-Template for Conforming a Diced Tetrahedral Mesh to any Diced Hexahedral Mesh. Engineering with Computers 15, 228–235 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003660050018
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003660050018