Molecular surface modeling and meshing

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 199-210

  Laug, P ^a   Borouchaki, H ^b  

^a INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

Advancing front method; Delaunay method; Molecular surface; Parametric surface; Quality mesh; Riemannian metric

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; QUANTUM THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; VISUALIZATION;

ADVANCING FRONT METHOD; DELAUNAY METHOD; MOLECULAR SURFACE MODEL; PARAMETRIC SURFACE; QUALITY MESH; RIEMANNIAN METRIC; SOLVENT ACCESSIBLE SURFACE; SOLVENT EXCLUDED SURFACE;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0036434222     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003660200018     Document Type: Article

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