A methodology for quadrilateral finite element mesh coarsening

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 241-251

  Staten, Matthew L ^a   Benzley, Steven ^b   Scott, Michael ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Coarsening; Finite elements; Quadrilateral; Refinement

Indexed keywords

COARSENING; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELASTICITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFINING;

FINITE ELEMENT (FE) MODELING; GENERAL METHOD; HEXAHEDRAL MESHES; HIGH FIDELITY; QUADRILATERAL FINITE ELEMENT; QUADRILATERAL MESHING; SPRINGER (CO); TETRAHEDRAL MESHING; THREE DIMENSIONS; UNSTRUCTURED MESH GENERATION;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 46749102146     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: 14355663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00366-008-0097-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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