Topological refinement procedures for triangular finite element meshes

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 243-255

  Canann, S A ^a   Muthukrishnan, S N ^a   Phillips, R K ^a  

^a MSC SOFTWARE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element; Mesh modification; Triangular mesh refinement and derefinement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TOPOLOGY;

MESH MODIFICATION; TRIANGULAR MESH REFINEMENT;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0030400258     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01198738     Document Type: Article

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