QMG 1.1 Home Page
The QMG package can generate finite element meshes in two and three dimensions. QMG is free software distributed at the source-code level. Although QMG is free, it is copyrighted by Cornell University. The package includes geometric modeling software, the mesh generator itself, and a finite element solver. The software is written in C++, Tcl/Tk and Matlab. The author of QMG is S. Vavasis. QMG runs on several Unix platforms and on Intel-based PC's under Windows NT.

The software includes a sequence of test cases with graphics to illustrate its features.

QMG contains two mesh generators; one is a quadtree/octree algorithm due to S. Mitchell and S. Vavasis. The second is a (2D) Delaunay algorithm based on work by P. Chew and also based on work by W. Mitchell, M. Rivara, and J. Ruppert.

Please select a topic from the following list.

  • An overview and two examples of the QMG package

  • Installation instructions

  • Geometric objects and datatypes

  • The mesh generators

  • The finite element package

  • Graphics in QMG

  • Reference on each command

    •  The following pages cover subtopics of the above major topics:
  • Differences between QMG 1.1 and QMG 1.0
  • Specifying user-defined functions
  • Setting tolerances
  • Brief synopsis of Tcl/Tk syntax
  • Notes on the source code
  • Copyright and license of QMG

    • Acknowledgements

    My colleague Paul Chew gave me advice on computational geometry. My colleague Brian Smith introduced me to Tcl/Tk. This software would not exist without the collaborative research effort with Scott Mitchell to develop the underlying algorithm.

    Work on QMG 1.0 was supported by the Division of Advanced Scientific Computing of the National Science Foundation through a Presidential Young Investigator grant. Matching funds were received from Xerox, AT&T, Tektronix, IBM, and Sun Microsystems (not all during the same year).

    Development of the Windows versions of QMG was supported by grants from Microsoft and Intel.

    Support from Argonne National Laboratory for work on QMG 1.1 is gratefully acknowledged. QMG 1.1 was also developed with support from the National Science Foundation at Cornell.

    This documentation is written by Stephen A. Vavasis and is copyright (c) 1996 by Cornell University. Permission to reproduce this documentation is granted provided this notice remains attached. There is no warranty of any kind on this software or its documentation. See the accompanying file 'Copyright' for a full statement of the copyright.

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    Stephen A. Vavasis, Computer Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, vavasis@cs.cornell.edu