Converting a tetrahedral mesh to a prism-tetrahedral hybrid mesh for FEM accuracy and efficiency

Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling 2008, SPM'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 287-294

  Yamakawa, Soji ^a   Shimada, Kenji ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Hybrid mesh; Mesh conversion; Prism element; Tetrahedral element

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; DO-MAINS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FINITE ELEMENTS; HYBRID MESH; HYBRID MESHES; MESH CONVERSION; SMOOTHING OPERATIONS; SOLUTION ACCURACIES; TARGET VOLUMES; TETRAHEDRAL ELEMENT; TETRAHEDRAL ELEMENTS; TETRAHEDRAL MESHES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MODELS; PRISMS; SELF PHASE MODULATION; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 57349120595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1364901.1364941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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