The fractal behaviour of triangular refined/derefined meshes

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 295-302

  De La Hoz, A Plaza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Iterated factal systems; Mesh generation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ADAPTIVITY; FRACTAL BEHAVIOUR; ITERATED FUNCTION SYSTEMS; MESH GENERATION; TRIANGULAR NESTED MESHES;

FRACTALS;

EID: 0030143285     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199605)12:5<295::AID-CNM967>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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