3 Related Work

In this chapter, the results of a literature research on volumetric meshing for simulations is presented. Section 3.1 covers mesh generation algorithms for simplex and all-quad/all-hex meshes as well as mesh generation software tools. Mesh adaptation algorithms with a focus on mesh optimization are presented in Section 3.2. Research on symmetry, similarity, and symmetry-aware mesh processing is discussed in Section 3.3.