Anisotropic centroidal voronoi tessellations and their applications

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 737-761

  Qiang, D U ^a   Wang, Desheng ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropic Delaunay triangulation; Anisotropy; Optimal mesh; Optimal tessellations; Riemannian metric; Surface mesh; Surface triangulation; Voronoi tessellations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; TENSORS; TRIANGULATION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

ANISOTROPIC CENTROIDAL VORONOI TESSELLATION (ACVT); ANISOTROPIC DELAUNAY TRIANGULATIONS; OPTIMAL MESH; OPTIMAL TESSELLATIONS; RIEMANNIAN METRIC; SURFACE MESH; SURFACE TRIANGULATIONS;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 19644365876     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827503428527     Document Type: Article

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