Phase II will produce usable tools that could be beneficial to NASA. The enhancement of CurveMesh is potentially beneficial to any NASA unstructured CFD FEM code that can use high-order meshes. FUN3D is under development to include a high order FEM flow solver. It?s core methods are similar to the FUNSAFE methods under development by Dr. Sreenivas. Enhancements to Project Geode with the planned schema will conceivably work with other meshing tools. Knowledge gained about implementing these new features into CurveMesh will be shared with the CFD community. FUN3D is again a tool that could use Project Geode for adaptive refinement and shape optimization. Phase II will lead to a possible commercial implementation of the CurveMesh methods in Pointwise. NASA engineers with Pointwise licenses will benefit from this implementation.
Phase II tools will also benefit other high order FEM flow solver developers by providing a means to create curved meshes for realistic geometries. The existing CurveMesh code has been used to create curved meshes for the 6th AIAA Drag Prediction Workshop, the 3rd High Lift Prediction Workshop and the 5th High Order CFD Workshop. Generated meshes have been analyzed by PyFR, CREATE-AV COFFE and others. Knowledge from Project Geode integration into CurveMesh will also benefit other researchers in need of geometry access. The possible commercialization of CurveMesh will benefit any Pointwise users in need of high order meshes.
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