Elimination of the adverse effects of small model features by the local modification of automatically generated meshes

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 134-152

  Dey, S ^a   Shephard, M S ^a   Georges, M K ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesh generation

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; TOPOLOGY;

MESH GENERATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0030689921     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01221211     Document Type: Article

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