Coarsening of mesh models for representation of rigid objects in finite element analysis

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 313-326

  Hattangady, Nitin V ^a,b  

^a ALCOA TECHNICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Aluminium Company of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesh coarsening; Mesh compaction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MESH COARSENING; MESH COMPACTION; MESH MODELS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0032730541     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990130)44:3<313::AID-NME502>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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