Hexahedral mesh smoothing using a direct method

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 453-463

  Menéndez Díaz, Agustín ^a   González Nicieza, Celestino ^a   Álvarez Vigil, Arturo Ernesto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Laplacian optimisation; Mesh generation; Quadrilateral mesh

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOPHYSICS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD ANALYSIS; GEOMETRICAL STIFFNESS MATRIX; HEXAHEDRAL MESH;

GEOTEXTILES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MESH;

EID: 15444374791     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2004.11.002     Document Type: Article

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