sphere_grid_2016_vt

sphere_grid_2016_vt, "Parallel Quality Meshes for Earth Models", the problem of constructing meshes on spheres, in particular, for modeling weather and climate on the surface of the Earth, presented at Virginia Tech, on 04 October 2016.

• sphere_grid_2016_vt.tex
• sphere_grid_2016_vt.pdf

The following files were used:

• bottleneck.png, a bottle-shaped region triangulated by the triangle program, using a mesh density function.
• california_coast.png, a grid generated for the ocean, focussing on the California coast.
• cam5_schem.png
• car_model_original.png
• car_model.png
• cell_neighborhood.png
• conforming_grid.png
• cubed_earth.png
• cubed_sphere.png
• cvt_1d_nonuniform.png, a plot showing the evolution of the node locations in a 1D CVT with a nonuniform density.
• cvt_circle_nonuniform.png, a CVT with a nonuniform density in a circle.
• cvt_circle_uniform.png, a CVT with a uniform density in a circle.
• cvt_thirty_006.png
• dealii_grid.png.png
• delaunay_full.png
• delaunay_highlight.png
• delaunay_split.png
• dtov_1.png, a Delaunay triangulation.
• dtov_2.png, a Delaunay triangulation, indicating how each triangle is split into parts associated with separate Voronoi polygons.
• dtov_3.png, illustrates how a Voronoi polygon is constructed from the parts of Delaunay triangles.
• empty_circumcircle.png, an illustration of the Delaunay empty circumcircle condition.
• f5_voronoi.png, the Voroni diagram for the 5th generation icosahedral points.
• florida_coast.png, a grid for the ocean off the Florida coast.
• fsu_logo.pdf, the FSU logo;
• greenland_zoom.png, a closeup of part of a mesh for Greenland, using a weighted CVT algorithm.
• hand_elements_nosize.png.png
• hand_elements.png.png
• hermine1.gif
• hermine1.png
• hermine2.png
• ippolita_mesh.png
• mpas_logo.png, the logo for the Multiple Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) group.
• p23_mesh.png
• p23_nodes.png
• p23_voronoi.png
• q4_curved.png
• q4_refined_locally.png
• q4_refined.png
• q4_uniform.png
• quilt_map.jpg
• quilt_map.png
• sc_logo.png
• sphere_icos1_grid_f3.png, the triangulation for generation 3 icosahedral points.
• sphere_icos1_points_f3.png, the triangulation for generation 3 icosahedral points.
• sphere_icos1_points_f5.png, the triangulation for generation 5 icosahedral points.
• sphere_icos1_points_f7.png, the triangulation for generation 7 icosahedral points.
• sphere_ll_grid.png, a sample longitude-latitude grid;
• sphere_llq_grid.png, a sample longitude-latitude grid of quadrilaterals;
• stereograph1.png, an illustration of stereographic projection.
• stereograph2.png, an illustration of stereographic projection.
• stripack_f2_delaunay.png
• stripack_f2_voronoi.png
• weather_satellite.jpg
• weather_satellite.png