A new automated scheme of quadrilateral mesh generation for randomly distributed line constraints

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 258-267

  Park, Changhyup ^a   Noh, Jae Seung ^a   Jang, Il Sik ^b   Kang, Joe M ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea National Oil Corporation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Automatic meshing; Direct method; Line constraint; Mesh generation; Quadrilateral

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONSTRAINT THEORY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AUTOMATIC MESHING; DIRECT METHODS; LINE CONSTRAINTS;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 34147201422     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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