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Structured Grid Methods Structured grid methods take their name from the fact that the grid is laid out in a regular repeating pattern called a block. These types of grids utilize quadrilateral elements in 2D and hexahedral elements in 3D in a computationally rectangular array. Although the element topology is fixed, the grid can be shaped to be body fitted through stretching and twisting of the block. Really good structured grid generators utilize sophisticated elliptic equations to automatically optimize the shape of the mesh for orthogonality and uniformity. It used to be that structured meshes could only consist of one block. The user was forced to make due with just one block and various cell flagging schemes were used to turn off portions of the block to model obstructions. Later, multiblock structured grid generation schemes were developed which allow several blocks to be connected together to construct the whole domain. Over the years, several block to block connection methods have evolved. These include point to point, where the blocks must match topologically and physically at the boundary, many points to one point, where the blocks must be topologically similar, but not the same at the boundary, and arbitrary connections, where the blocks must be physically similar at the boundary, but can have significant topology differences. While multiblock grids give the user more freedom in constructing the mesh, the block connection requirements can be restricting and are often difficult to construct. Additionally, the various degrees of block connectivity freedom come at the expense of solution accuracy and solver robustness.  There is another structured grid method which seeks to avoid the problems associated with block connections. Chimera or overset grid methods allow the individual blocks to conform to the physical boundaries, but be free form and overlapping at the block connections. Sophisticated post processing programs are run