Mesh association by projection along smoothed-normal-vector fields: Association of closed manifolds

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 493-520

  van Brummelen, E H ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fluid structure interaction; High order finite element methods; Mesh association; Mesh incompatibility; Multiphysics; Non matching meshes

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION;

MESH ASSOCIATION METHOD; REGULARITY THEORY; SMOOTHED-NORMAL-VECTOR FIELD;

MESH GENERATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; MESH GENERATION;

EID: 38349108811     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2085     Document Type: Article

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