Suzanne M. Shontz - NSF CAREER Project

Suzanne M. Shontz
National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Project
"CAREER: Parallel Dynamic Meshing Algorithms for Simulation-Assisted Medical Interventions"
2/15/2011-1/31/2017

Acknowledgement

We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation through NSF ACI grant 1500487 (formerly NSF ACI grants 1330056 and 1054459).

Disclaimer

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF CAREER Award Grant ACI 1500487 (formerly NSF ACI grants 1330056 and 1054459). Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of Suzanne Shontz, her research group, and her collaborators, and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.

Abstract

NSF Abstract

Parallel Dynamic Meshing Toolkit

T. Panitanarak, S.P. Sastry, M. Stees, and S.M. Shontz (PI). Parallel Dynamic Meshing Toolkit, 2017.

The software is distributed under the GPL license:

GPL license.

The code is further restricted in that it can be freely used for educational and research purposes by non-profit institutions and US government agencies only.

Here are some test meshes for use with the parallel dynamic meshing toolkit:

Test meshes for use with the parallel LBWARP method (i.e., PLBWARP)

Test meshes for use with the parallel log barrier method

Publications

This software is the culmination of our research efforts in parallel dynamic meshing. The toolkit includes parallel mesh warping, parallel mesh quality improvement, and parallel mesh untangling algorithms. In particular, the software in the toolkit includes implementations of the parallel dynamic meshing algorithms described in the following publications and dissertations.

See the project website to access these publications. (Note: The publications and dissertations are numbered according to their numbering on the project website.)

[4] T. Panitanarak and S.M. Shontz, A parallel log barrier-based mesh warping algorithm for distributed memory machines, Accepted for publication in Engineering with Computers, April 2017.

[6] S.P. Sastry, E. Kultursay, S.M. Shontz, and M.T. Kandemir, Improved cache utilization and preconditioner efficiency through use of a space-filling curve mesh element- and vertex-reordering technique, Engineering with Computers, 30(4):535-547, October 2014. (Invited).

[9] S.P. Sastry and S.M. Shontz, A parallel log-barrier method for mesh quality improvement and untangling, Engineering with Computers, 30(4):503-515, October 2014. (Invited)

[18] Shankar Prasad Sastry, "Dynamic Meshing Techniques for Mesh Quality Improvement and Deformation", The Pennsylvania State University, August 2012.

[19] Jibum Kim, "Optimization-based Meshing Techniques for Mesh Quality Improvement and Deformation", The Pennsylvania State University, December 2012.

[20] Thap Panitanarak, "Scalable Graph and Mesh Algorithms on Distributed-Memory Systems", The Pennsylvania State University, August 2017. (Thap was co-adivsed with Kamesh Madduri.)