Meshing curved wire-frame models through energy minimization and packing of ellipses

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1221-1236

  Yamada, Atsushi ^a   Shimada, Kenji ^b   Itoh, Takayuki ^a  

^a IBM JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic mesh; CAE; FEM; Mesh generation; Surface modelling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN;

BUBBLE MESHING METHODS; MESH GENERATIONS; MESHING CURVED WIRE-FRAME MODELS; THIN-PLATE-BENDING MODELS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033360370     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19991120)46:8<1221::AID-NME745>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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