Tetrahedral finite element mesh generation from NURBS solid models

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 211-223

  Gursoy H N ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computational geometry; Delaunay tetrahedrization; Finite element meshing; Octrees

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAPH THEORY;

DELAUNAY TETRAHEDRIZATION; MESH GENERATION; OCTREES;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0030407357     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf01198735     Document Type: Article

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