A new indirect anisotropic quadrilateral mesh generation scheme with enchanced local mesh smoothing procedures

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 277-300

  Lee, Y K ^a   Lee, C K ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Advancing front technique; Anisotrophic mesh generation; Indirect quadrilateral mesh generation; Local and global anisotropic mesh smoothings; Systemic merging technique

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS;

MESH GENERATION;

ANISOTROPY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

EID: 0141862292     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.771     Document Type: Article

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