On curvature element-size control in metric surface mesh generation

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 787-807

  Lee, C K ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Automatic surface mesh generation; Curvature element size control; Metric triangulation; Parametric surfaces; Principal curvatures and directions

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CURVE FITTING; TENSORS;

ADAPTIVE SURFACE MESH GENERATION;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL;

EID: 0035119272     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0207(20010210)50:4<787::AID-NME51>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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