Adaptive unstructured volume remeshing - I: The method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 616-625

  Anderson, Anthony ^a,d   Zheng, Xiaoming ^b,e   Cristini, Vittorio ^a,c  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; DROP BREAKUP; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

ADAPTIVE REMESHING; BREAKUP AND COALESCENCES; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; LEVEL SET SIMULATION; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; REMESHING; REMESHING ALGORITHM; TETRAHEDRA; THREE DIMENSIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONS;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 19744364406     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.02.023     Document Type: Article

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