Variational tetrahedral meshing of mechanical models for finite element analysis

Computer-Aided Design and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 228-240

  Smit, Matthijs Sypkens ^a   Bronsvoort, Willem F ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boundary conformance; Delaunay meshing; FEA; Variational tetrahedral meshing

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONFORMANCE; DELAUNAY; DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL MODEL; MESH QUALITY; MESHING ALGORITHM; PARAMETER CONTROL; REGULAR TETRAHEDRON; SMOOTH MODELS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 70449522619     PISSN: 16864360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3722/cadaps.2008.228-240     Document Type: Article

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