Generalization of the Mid-Element Based Dimensional Reduction

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 308-314

  Suresh, Krishnan ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD CAE; Dimensional Reduction; Geometric Simplification; Medial Axis Transforms; Plate Theory

Indexed keywords

DIMENSIONAL REDUCTION; GEOMETRIC SIMPLIFICATION; MEDIAL AXIS TRANSFORMS; PLATE THEORY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POISSON EQUATION;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 1642525162     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1631441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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