Anisotropic mesh adaption by metric-driven optimization

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 597-639

  Bottasso, Carlo L ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic grids; Mesh adaptivity; Mesh optimization; Riemannian metric; Unstructured grids

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION;

ANISOTROPIC MESH ADAPTION; METRIC-DRIVEN OPTIMIZATION; UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS;

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 2542469068     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.977     Document Type: Article

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