Surface mesh sizing control

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 497-511

  Owen, Steven J ^a,b   Saigal, Sunil ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ANSYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic meshing; Boundary layers; Mesh generation; Natural neighbour interpolation; Surface curvature; Surface mesh sizing

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; INTERPOLATION;

SURFACE MESH SIZING CONTROL;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0033898682     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(20000110/30)47:1/3<497::AID-NME781>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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