Mesh smoothing using the Geometric Element Transformation Method

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 197, Issue 45-48, 2008, Pages 3760-3767

  Vartziotis, Dimitris ^a,b   Athanasiadis, Theodoros ^b   Goudas, Iraklis ^b   Wipper, Joachim ^a  

^a TWT GmbH   (Germany)

^b NIKI Ltd   (Greece)

Author keywords

Finite element mesh; Iterative element optimization; Mesh smoothing; Surface mesh; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

CANNING; CONTROL THEORY;

APPLICATIONS.; CONTROL VARIABLES; FINITE ELEMENT MESH; GEOMETRIC OPERATIONS; ITERATIVE ELEMENT OPTIMIZATION; LOWER BOUNDS; MESH QUALITY; MESH SMOOTHING; NOVEL METHODS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; REAL-WORLD; SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; SURFACE MESH; TRANSFORMATION METHOD; TRIANGULAR SURFACE MESHES; TRIANGULATION; UPPER BOUNDS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 50049084657     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2008.02.028     Document Type: Article

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