Smoothing and local refinement techniques for improving tetrahedral mesh quality

Computers and Structures

Volumn 83, Issue 28-30 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 2423-2430

  Escobar, J M ^a   Montenegro, R ^a   Montero, G ^a   Rodriguez E ^a   Gonzalez Yuste J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

3 D finite element method; Adaptive refinement; Mesh generation; Mesh smoothing; Mesh untangling; Nested meshes

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY;

ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT; MESH GENERATION; MESH SMOOTHING; MESH UNTANGLING; NESTED MESHES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 25644433682     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2005.03.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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