Pyramid elements for maintaining tetrahedra to hexahedra conformability

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Applied Mechanics Division, AMD

Volumn 220, Issue , 1997, Pages 123-129

  Owen, Steven J ^a   Canann, Scott A ^a   Saigal, Sunil ^a  

^a ANSYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TOPOLOGY;

PYRAMID ELEMENTS; TETRAHEDRA HEXAHEDRA CONFORMABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0030691320     PISSN: 01608835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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