General approach to automatic generation of quadrilaterals on three-dimensional surfaces

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 609-620

  Lee, M C ^a   Joun, M S ^a,b  

^a Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

^b Reg Res Ctr Aircraft Parts T   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CAD CAM interface; Node sampling on edges; Quadrilateral finite element generation; Three dimensional surfaces; Topological information generation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOPOLOGY;

QUADRILATERAL FINITE ELEMENT GENERATION; SURFACE MESHING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0032116004     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199807)14:7<609::AID-CNM172>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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