Generalized 3-D paving: An automated quadrilateral surface mesh generation algorithm

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1475-1489

  Cass, Roger J ^a   Benzley, Steven E ^a   Meyers, Ray J ^b   Blacker, Ted D ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element; Meshing; Quadrilateral; Surfaces; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AUTOMATIC MESH GENERATION; BOUNDARY SENSITIVITY; INTERNAL MESH DENSITY; MESHING; PAVING; PROGRESSIVE FRONT TECHNIQUE; QUADRILATERAL SURFACE MESH GENERATION; SCALAR SIZING FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0030150563     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19960515)39:9<1475::AID-NME913>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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