Automating node and element assignments on conforming four-sided sections defining a domain for mapping quadrilateral elements

Computers and Structures

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 373-380

  Barker, D E ^a,c   Lantz, S A ^b,d  

^a Utah Supercomputing Institute   (United States)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

^c OEC Medical Systems Inc   (United States)

^d Rose Hullman Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY;

BLOCK STRUCTURED GRID; CONFORMING BOUNDARIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030834691     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00315-0     Document Type: Article

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