A new element bisection algorithm for unstructured adaptive tetrahedral mesh generation

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 588-615

  Wilson, J K ^a   Topping, B H V ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; TRIANGULATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN;

ELEMENT BISECTION ALGORITHMS; MESH ENHANCEMENT; MESH GENERATORS; NODAL RELAXATION; UNSTRUCTURED ADAPTIVE TETRAHEDRAL MESH GENERATION;

ALGORITHMS; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031628725     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409810225779     Document Type: Article

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