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Incremental Generation of Polycubes Driven by Geometric Quality


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The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.

The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

SL-DAM-26-0867  

Direction

DAM

Thesis topic details

Category

Engineering science

Thesis topics

Incremental Generation of Polycubes Driven by Geometric Quality

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Job description

The proposed work consists of designing and developing a new algorithm for generating block-structured hexahedral meshes using a “Polycube”-typed strategy. Usually, these methods deform a geometric domain G to be discretized into a polycube P, i.e. a polyhedron whose all the faces are orthogonal to one of the X, Y, or Z axes. This polyhedron can be easily discretized using a hexahedral mesh, which is then transformed via the inverse deformation to pave G.

Unlike traditional approaches, which are based on constructing the deformation function, we focus on the inverse function by treating the pair (geometry G, polycube P) as input. Our goal is to compute the inverse function F that transforms P into G, and, depending on some local properties of F, modify P to provide a “better” mesh of G from a geometric point of view.

University / doctoral school

Sciences et Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (STIC)

Thesis topic location

Site

DAM Île-de-France

Requester

Position start date

01/10/2026

Person to be contacted by the applicant

LEDOUX Franck franck.ledoux@cea.fr
CEA
DAM/DCLC//DCLC
CEA DAM Ile de France
Bruyères le Châtel
91297 ARPAJON Cedex

01 69 26 40 00

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

LEDOUX Franck franck.ledoux@cea.fr
CEA
DAM/DCLC//DCLC
CEA DAM Ile de France
Bruyères le Châtel
91297 ARPAJON Cedex

01 69 26 40 00

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