Automatic scheme selection for toolkit hex meshing

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 127-144

  White, David R ^a   Tautges, Timothy J ^a,b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cubit; Hexahedra; Mapping; Submapping; Sweeping; Toolkit

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING;

HEXAHEDRAL MESH GENERATION; MESHING ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE CUBIT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0034269878     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0207(20000910/20)49:1/2<127::AID-NME926>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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