A universal measure of the conformity of a mesh with respect to an anisotropic metric field

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2675-2695

  Labbe P ^a,b   Dompierre, J ^a,c   Vallet, M G ^a,c   Guibault, F ^a,c   Trepanier J Y ^a,c  

^a Centre de Recherche en Calcul Applique   (Canada)

^b MAYA HTT   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Mesh conformity; Metric; Shape measure; Size measure; Tetrahedra; Triangle

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TENSORS;

MESH; METRIC FIELDS; RIEMANNIAN METRICS;

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 11144290246     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1178     Document Type: Article

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