Parallel guaranteed quality delaunay uniform mesh refinement

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1907-1926

  Chernikov, Andrey N ^a   Chrisochoides, Nikos P ^a  

^a William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Delaunay triangulation; Mesh generation; Parallel refinement

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; SHARED-MEMORY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIES;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 34250211318     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/050625886     Document Type: Article

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