Identifying and meshing thin sections of 3-d curved domains

Proceedings of the 14th International Meshing Roundtable, IMR 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 33-54

  Yin, Luzhong ^a   Luo, Xiaojuan ^a   Shephard, Mark S ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Medial surface; Prismatic elements; Thin sections

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE INFORMATION; MEDIAL SURFACES; MESH MODIFICATION; P VERSION FINITE ELEMENT; PRISMATIC ELEMENTS; SURFACE TRIANGULATION; THICKNESS DIRECTION; THIN SECTION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 33745947356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-29090-7_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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