The Computational Modeling Sciences Department (Organization 1421) at Sandia National Laboratories is committed to researching, developing and maintaining cutting edge enabling technologies for modeling and simulation. This includes new technologies in geometry preparation, advanced mesh generation algorithms, mesh quality and mesh improvement for finite element analysis as well as software tools and infrastructure for effectively delivering these capabilities to Sandia's engineering community. While it's main customer is the Nuclear Weapons Complex, it also maintains significant partnerships with industry and academia. The primary vehicle for research and development is the CUBIT Geometry and Mesh Generation Toolkit. It also sponsors the annual technical conference, International Meshing Roundtable.

Mission

1. High Quality Software: We build high-quality software that is used to generate simulation models for Sandia’s Design and Analysis communities and beyond. 
2. Measurable Impact: We strive to dramatically change the way our customers do business by providing tools that will most impact their day-to-day productivity in a positive and measurable way. 
3. Core Technologies: We leverage and build on our core strengths of geometry preparation for meshing and hexahedral meshing algorithms to maintain cutting-edge world leadership in these technologies.
4. Open for business: We seek to be the team that Sandia and the world looks to in order to solve the most difficult challenges in our core technologies.

Goals

1. Reduce the time to generate Sandia’s analysis models
2. Become the tool of choice for structural and thermal analysis at Sandia
3. Leverage our technology to provide new innovative solutions to Sandia and beyond.
4. Provide R&D that enables us to be recognized as world-wide technology leaders in geometry preparation and mesh generation

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