Towards curvilinear meshing in 3D: The case of quadratic simplices

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 199-209

  Dey, S ^a   O'Bara, R M ^b   Shephard, M S ^c  

^a SFA INC   (United States)

^b Simmetrix Inc   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CURVILINEAR MESH GENERATION; VERSION ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0035281502     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4485(00)00120-2     Document Type: Article

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