This paper is not a review, but narrates the personal experiences (nearly fifty years) of the author concerning unstructured mesh, a well debated theme during these years.
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Alain Dervieux. To be structured, or unstructured, fifty years of slings and arrows. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, More than a half century of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Volume 350 (2022) no. S1, pp. 53-58. doi : 10.5802/crmeca.115. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mecanique/articles/10.5802/crmeca.115/
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