Hexahedral mesh generation for biomedical models in SCIRun

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 97-114

  Shepherd, Jason F ^a   Johnson, Chris R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MESH GENERATION;

APPROXIMATION METHODS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE (FD); FINITE ELEMENT (FE); FINITE VOLUMES; HEXAHEDRAL MESH GENERATION; ISO-SURFACES; MODEL GEOMETRIES; SURFACE BOUNDARIES;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 58549100050     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: 14355663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00366-008-0108-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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