Development of a grid-based mesh generation technique and its application to remeshing during the finite element simulation of a metal forming process

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 316-336

  Lee, Y K ^a   Yang, D Y ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; METAL FORMING;

GRIDS; MESH GENERATION; REMESHING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0032648870     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409910266458     Document Type: Article

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