Stellar and Mesquites, two libraries for optimizing meshes, should be wrapped for ViennaMesh

This project is currently unassigned.

The student should be familiar with C++ and template programming.

We envision milestones, each containing its own list of tasks to be completed to be able to claim the assigned salary.

1. Learning: Getting familiar with the Stellar source code. Investigate which optimization algorithms are useable through the Stellar C API.

1. Learning: Getting familiar with the ViennaGrid meshing library
2. Learning: Getting familiar with the ViennaMesh meshing library
3. Implementation: Provide conversion functions for tetrahedral 3D meshes from Stellar to ViennaGrid and from ViennaGrid to Stellar.

1. Implementation: Provide ViennaMesh algorithms which wrap Stellars optimization algorithms.

1. Learning: Getting familiar with Mesquite. Investigate which optimization algorithms are useable through the Mesquite API and should be wrapped.

1. Implementation: Provide conversion functions for tetrahedral 3D meshes from Mesquite to ViennaGrid and from ViennaGrid to Mesquite.
2. Implementation: Provide ViennaMesh algorithms which wrap Mesquite optimization algorithms.

Stellar package: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/stellar/Stellar_1.0.tar.gz

Mesquite package: https://software.sandia.gov/mesquite/

Mesquite 2.3.0 manual: https://software.sandia.gov/mesquite/doc-2.3.0/users-guide.pdf

Florian Rudolf