Applications of mesh smoothing: Copy, morph, and sweep on unstructured quadrilateral meshes

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-45

  Knupp, Patrick M ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Hexahedral meshing; Mesh copying; Mesh smoothing; Mesh sweeping; Unstructured grid generation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; SURFACES;

MESH SMOOTHING; UNSTRUCTURED MESH;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0032678180     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990510)45:1<37::AID-NME577>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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