Comparison of automatic planar mesh generation schemes facilitating edge meshing

In this paper, a comparison of two automatic surface mesh generation schemes is presented. One is available in a commercial application (Zeland IE3D™), and the other is a scheme proposed and implemented by one of the authors (CGSM). Each scheme uses rectangular and triangular cells and facilitates edge meshing. The comparison consists in using each scheme with the same meshing parameters to discretize several structures. Subsequently, the quality of resulting meshes is compared in terms of: their shape, the number of cells, the number of internal edges, sizes and shapes of the cells as well as the computation times.