Multiple marching direction approach to generate high-quality hybrid meshes

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 162-167

  Ito, Yasushi ^a,c,d   Shih, Alan M ^a,c,d   Soni, Bharat K ^a,c,d   Nakahashi, Kazuhiro ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (Japan)

^d AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SINGULAR POINTS; SURFACE TRIANGULATION; TETRAHEDRAL MESHING;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRISMS; VISCOSITY;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 33846677939     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.23260     Document Type: Article

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