Adaptive tetrahedral meshing in free-surface flow

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 228-252

  Dai, Meizhong ^a   Schmidt, David P ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

ALE; Dynamic meshing; Edge swapping; Free surface flow; Mesh smoothing; Moving mesh

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ALE; DYNAMIC MESHING; EDGE SWAPPING; FREE-SURFACE FLOW; MESH QUALITY; MESH SMOOTHING; MOVING MESH; OPTIMISATIONS; SWAPPING ALGORITHMS; TETRAHEDRAL MESHING;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 19044383146     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.02.012     Document Type: Article

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