Current Trends and Issues in Automatic Mesh Generation

Computer-Aided Design and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 741-750

  Shimada, Kenji ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Directionality; FEM; Geometric Operations; Mesh Generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744825492     PISSN: 16864360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16864360.2006.10738427     Document Type: Article

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