An automatic mesh generator for handling small features in open boundary power transmission line problems using artificial neural networks

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 177-190

  Triantafyllidis, D G ^a   Labridis, D P ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Automatic mesh generation; Finite element method; Mesh density prediction; Neural networks; Power transmission lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000397377     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(200003)16:3<177::AID-CNM319>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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