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'''Parallel mesh generation''' in [[numerical analysis]] is a new research area between the boundaries of two [[scientific computing]] disciplines: [[computational geometry]] and [[parallel computing]]<ref name="Chrisochoides">Nikos Chrisochoides, Parallel Mesh Generation, Chapter in ''Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations on Parallel Computers'', (Eds. Are Magnus Bruaset, Aslak Tveito), Springer-Verlag, pp 237-259, 2005.</ref>. Parallel mesh generation methods decompose the original [[mesh generation]] problem into smaller subproblems which are solved (meshed) in parallel using multiple processors or threads. The existing parallel mesh generation methods can be classified in terms of two basic attributes:

#the sequential technique used for meshing the individual subproblems and

#the degree of coupling between the subproblems.
One of the challenges in parallel mesh generation is to develop parallel meshing software using off-the-shelf sequential meshing codes.

==Overview==