SIAM IMR26: Meshing Contest

The IMR Committee is pleased to announce that the Meshing Contest will again be part of the SIAM International Meshing Roundtable Workshop.

Contest

Participants can submit entries demonstrating the capabilities of their software in the following disciplines:

  • mesh generation
  • mesh post-processing

Surface (triangular, quad-dominant, quad, etc.) or volume (tetrahedral/hexahedral/hex-dominant/pyramid etc.) meshes or a combination of both are acceptable. The poster should include images showing the details of the mesh and the following information:

  • Participant(s) name(s)
  • Affiliation
  • Discipline: mesh generation or mesh post-processing or both
  • Meshing code/product used
  • Mesh size (number of nodes and elements of each type)
  • Meshing use (state the problem of physics/engineering the mesh is intended to be used for, specify analysis type)

The IMR committee has decided on using the following models for this year’s meshing contest. Either model can be meshed in its entirety or only a subregion may be focused on. Or both models could be meshed and combined in an inventive or impressive way. The goal is to produce a great picture demonstrating meshing methods. The winner of the Meshing Competition goes on the 2027 IMR t-shirt.

  • A model of the Brandenburg Gate, created by FOVEA. Permission was kindly granted to use it for the IMR meshing contest (original source).
  • The second model is the DLR F6. This model was sourced from the AIAA Drag Predication Workshop group, and permission was kindly granted to use it in the IMR meshing contest (original source).

Session

Presenters will give a one-minute presentation advertising their meshing contest entry using a single Powerpoint (.ppt) slide. Afterwards, attendees will be encouraged to visit the entries and discuss the details with the presenter. The attendees will be invited to vote on the best meshing contest entry from an aesthetic point of view: the winning entry will be featured on next year’s t-shirt. The logistics for printing and getting the poster to the venue are the responsibility of the author. Please do not laminate your poster.

Submission

Posters must be provided in an A0 .pdf format (841 mm x 1189 mm or 33.1” x 46.8”) with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

Email your note of commitment by the January 15, 2026 to Wenyan Wang or Jérôme Breil.

To participate in the poster session, one must register and attend the conference.

Contact

For any question or feedback concerning the meshing contest, please contact the meshing contest chairs: