Iterative mesh generation for FE-computations on free form surfaces

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 14, Issue 6-7, 1997, Pages 806-820

  Kobbelt, Leif ^a   Hesse, Torsten ^b   Prautzsch, Hartmut ^b   Schweizerhof, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SPLINES; TOPOLOGY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL;

FREE FORM SURFACES; BOUNDARY POLYGONS; INTERPOLATING SURFACE; MESH GENERATION; VERTICES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0031362049     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409710188736     Document Type: Article

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