The generation of hexahedral meshes for assembly geometry: Survey and progress

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2617-2642

  Tautges, Timothy J ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometry decomposition; Hexahedral; Mesh generation; Quadrilateral

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

COMPONENT ASSEMBLIES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PERFORMANCE; TOOL;

EID: 0035972112     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.139     Document Type: Article

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