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Regular grid

Tessellation of Euclidean space

Regular grid

Tessellation of Euclidean space

Example of a regular grid

A regular grid is a tessellation of n-dimensional Euclidean space by congruent parallelotopes (e.g. bricks). Its opposite is irregular grid.

Grids of this type appear on graph paper and may be used in finite element analysis, finite volume methods, finite difference methods, and in general for discretization of parameter spaces. Since the derivatives of field variables can be conveniently expressed as finite differences, structured grids mainly appear in finite difference methods. Unstructured grids offer more flexibility than structured grids and hence are very useful in finite element and finite volume methods.

Each cell in the grid can be addressed by index (i, j) in two dimensions or (i, j, k) in three dimensions, and each vertex has coordinates (i\cdot dx, j\cdot dy) in 2D or (i\cdot dx, j\cdot dy, k\cdot dz) in 3D for some real numbers dx, dy, and dz representing the grid spacing.

References

References

  1. Uznanski, Dan.. "Grid.". From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource, created by Eric W. Weisstein..
  2. J.F. Thompson, B. K . Soni & N.P. Weatherill. (1998). "Handbook of Grid Generation". CRC-Press.
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