Locally refined tetrahedral mesh generation based on advancing front technique with optimization and smoothing scheme

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 681-688

  Choi, Woo Young ^a   Son, Il Heon ^b   Im, Yong Taek ^b  

^a Digitalway Co Ltd   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Advancing front technique; Local refinement; Optimization scheme; Tetrahedral mesh generation

Indexed keywords

ADVANCING FRONT TECHNIQUUES; COMPUTATION TIME; INTERIOR ANGLE; TETRAHEDRAL MESH GENERATION;

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 4444308057     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.707     Document Type: Article

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