3D tetrahedral, unstructured and anisotropic mesh generation with adaptation to natural and multidomain metric

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 194, Issue 48-49, 2005, Pages 4951-4976

  Gruau, Cyril ^a   Coupez, Thierry ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Elliptic interpolation; Interface refinement; Thickness detection and curvature treatment; Topology and shape optimization

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTERPOLATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; THEOREM PROVING;

CURVATURE TREATMENT; ELLIPTIC INTERPOLATION; INTERFACE REFINEMENT; THICKNESS DETECTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 24044505060     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2004.11.020     Document Type: Article

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