The geometric element transformation method for mixed mesh smoothing

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 287-301

  Vartziotis, Dimitris ^a,b   Wipper, Joachim ^b  

^a NIKI Ltd   (Greece)

^b TWT GmbH Science and Innovation   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element mesh; Iterative element regularization; Mesh smoothing; Mixed mesh

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; ELEMENT QUALITY; FINITE ELEMENT MESH; GEOMETRIC ELEMENTS; GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS; GLOBAL MESH; HIGH QUALITY; ITERATIVE ELEMENT REGULARIZATION; MESH QUALITY; MESH SMOOTHING; MIXED MESH; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMIZATION-BASED TECHNIQUES; SMOOTHING METHODS; TRANSFORMATION BASED; TRANSFORMATION METHODS; TRANSFORMATION PARAMETERS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 68949216265     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: 14355663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00366-009-0125-6     Document Type: Article

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