Extraction of boundary representation from surface triangulations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1737-1758

  Krysl, Petr ^a   Ortiz, Michael ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic element mesh generation; Boundary representation; Non manifold topology; Surface triangulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TOPOLOGY; TRIANGULATION;

SURFACE TRIANGULATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL;

EID: 0035069617     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.94     Document Type: Article

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