Computing least area hypersurfaces spanning arbitrary boundaries

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 886-917

  Parks, Harold R ^a   Pitts, Jon T ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area minimizing currents; Area minimizing surfaces; Functions of least gradient; Method of least gradient

Indexed keywords

AREA MINIMIZING SURFACES; HYPERSURFACES; LEAST AREA PROBLEM;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0031129189     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827594278903     Document Type: Article

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