Automatic hexahedral mesh generation using a new grid-based method with geometry and mesh transformation

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 194, Issue 39-41, 2005, Pages 4071-4096

  Su, Y ^a   Lee, K H ^b   Kumar, A S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Field morphing; Fuzzy logic; Grid based mesh generation; Hexahedral mesh generation; Laplacian isoparametric smoothing; Recognition model; Tessellated model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOPOLOGY;

GEOMETRIC MODEL; MESH GENERATION; MESH TRANSFORMATION; RECOGNITION MODELS;

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS;

EID: 21044432518     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2004.11.001     Document Type: Article

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