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MeshONet: A generalizable and efficient operator learning method for structured mesh generation

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Jing Xiao
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Xinhai Chen
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Jiaming Peng
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Qinglin Wang
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Jie Liu
DOI:10.1016/j.neunet.2026.108746delete
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Mesh generation plays a crucial role in scientific computing. Traditional mesh generation methods, such as TFI and PDE-based methods, often struggle to achieve a balance between efficiency and mesh quality. To address this challenge, physics-informed intelligent methods have recently emerged, significantly improving generation efficiency while maintaining high mesh quality. However, these methods fail to generalize when applied to previously unseen geometries, as even small changes in the boundary shape necessitate burdensome retraining to adapt to new geometric variations. In this paper, we introduce MeshONet, the first generalizable intelligent method for structured mesh generation. The method transforms the mesh generation task into an operator learning problem with multiple input and solution functions. To effectively overcome the multivariable mapping restriction of operator learning methods, we propose a dual-branch, shared-trunk architecture to approximate the mapping between function spaces based on input-output pairs. Experimental results show that MeshONet achieves a speedup of up to four orders of magnitude in generation efficiency over traditional methods. It also enables generalization to different geometries without retraining, greatly enhancing the practicality of intelligent methods.
Keywords:
structured mesh generation
operator learning
generalization
efficient computation
intelligent methods

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national university of defense technology
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