Unstructured mesh generation: Theory, practice, and perspectives

International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 227-266

  Teng, Shang Hua ^a   Wong, Chi Wai ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aspect ratio; Computational geometry; Delaunay triangulations; Mesh generation; Numerical methods; Radius edge ratio; Randomized algorithms; Weighted Delaunay triangulations; Well spaced points

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034403068     PISSN: 02181959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218195900000152     Document Type: Article

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