INTERACTIVE GRID GENERATION ON SMALL COMPUTERS

THE BASIS FOR FLEXIBLE INTERACTIVE GRID GENERATION SOFTWARE ON SMALL COMPUTERS WOULD BE ESTABLISHED. THE MAIN ISSUES IN THIS PROJECT ARE BOTH MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL. IN PARTICULAR, WE WOULD BUILD UPON THE CONTROL POINT FORM OF ALGEBRAIC GRID GENERATION AND ITS INTEGRATION INTO A POWERFUL SOFTWARE SYSTEM. THE CONTROL POINT FORM PROVIDES A DISTRIBUTED CONTROL OVER THE GRID AND AT THE SAME TIME EACH BOUNDARY MAY BE TAKEN AS EITHER FREE-FORMABLE OR SPECIFIED. AS A FEASIBILITY PROCESS, A PROTOTYPE OF THE DESIRED SOFTWARE WOULD BE CREATED FOR A BASIC ANALYSIS AND EXAMINATION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES THAT WILL BE PRESENT IN THE GENERAL VERSION IN THE FUTURE. ACCORDINGLY, THE PROTOTYPE WOULD BE CREATED IN TWO DIMENSIONS IN A BLOCK STRUCTURED FORMAT WITH ONLY A FEW BLOCKS. THIS WILL PROVIDE A SMALL SCALE SETTING IN WHICH TO EXAMINE THE TREATMENT OF MULTIPLE BLOCKS AND VARIOUS LEVELS OF AUTOMATION. IN PARTICULAR, WE WOULD STUDY THE INITIALIZATION PROCESS, THE TREATMENT OF BOUNDARIES, THE GRID TOPOLOGY, THE SPEED OF OPERATIONS, AND THE AUTOMATIC FEATURES.