Measuring mesh qualities and application to variational mesh adaptation

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1643-1666

  Huang, Weizhang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Error estimate; Mesh adaptation; Mesh quality; Variational mesh adaptation

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ERROR ESTIMATE; MESH ADAPTATION; MESH QUALITY; VARIATION MESH ADAPTATION;

NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 25444533561     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827503429405     Document Type: Article

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