Interior point tracking in shape evolving unstructured finite element meshes

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 15, Issue 6-7, 1998, Pages 721-731

  Robinson, James C ^a   Campbell, John S ^b   Kelliher, Denis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DESIGN; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOTEXTILES; MAPPING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

FINITE ELEMENT MESHES; INTERIOR POINT TRACKING; MESH GENERATION; BOUNDING SURFACES; PARAMETRIC SPACE; POINT TRACKING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 0032307852     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409810231862     Document Type: Article

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