Measuring the conformity of non-simplicial elements to an anisotropic metric field

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 64, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1944-1958

  Sirois, Yannick ^a   Dompierre, Julien ^a   Vallet, Marie Gabrielle ^a   Guibault, François ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hexahedron; Mesh anisotropy; Mesh conformity; Metric; Prism; Pyramid; Quadrilateral; Shape measure; Size measure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TENSORS;

HEXAHEDRON; MESH ANISOTROPY; MESH CONFORMITY; PRISM; PYRAMID; QUADRILATERAL; SHAPE MEASURE; SIZE MEASURE;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

PRISM;

EID: 28844468125     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1437     Document Type: Article

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