Feature decomposition for hexahedral meshing

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 1999, Pages 601-612

  Lu, Yong ^a   Gadh, Rajit ^a   Tautges, Timothy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature Recognition; Hexahedral Meshing; Meshing; Solid Modeling; Volume Decomposition

Indexed keywords

MESH GENERATION;

COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; FEATURE DECOMPOSITION; FEATURE RECOGNITION; GEOMETRY INFORMATION; HEXAHEDRAL MESH GENERATION; HEXAHEDRAL MESHING; MESHING ALGORITHM; VOLUME DECOMPOSITION;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 33644700651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC99/DAC-8618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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