Mesh generation over curved surfaces with explicit control on discretization error

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 15, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 357-373

  Lo, S H ^a   Lau, T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BUCKLING; CONTROL THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS; CURVE FITTING; ERROR ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT ANALYSIS; AUTOMATIC MESH GENERATORS; BOUNDARY NODES; DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; MESH GENERATION;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031677965     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409810208516     Document Type: Article

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