Automatic generation of anisotropic quadrilateral meshes on three-dimensional surfaces using metric specifications

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2673-2700

  Lee, Y K ^a   Lee, C K ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Advancing front technique; Anisotropic mesh generation; Indirect method; Quadrilateral mesh generation; Systemic merging technique

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

QUADRILATERAL MESHES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 0037197582     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.408     Document Type: Article

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