An algebraic method for smoothing surface triangulations on a local parametric space

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 740-760

  Escobar, J M ^a   Montero, Gustavo ^a   Montenegro, Rafa ^a   Rodriguez E ^a  

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

Author keywords

Adaptive finite elements; Algebraic quality measures; Surface mesh smoothing; Surface triangulations

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TRIANGULATION;

ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENTS; ALGEBRAIC QUALITY MEASURES; SURFACE MESH SMOOTHING;

SURFACES;

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACES; TRIANGULATION;

EID: 33646074028     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1584     Document Type: Article

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