Fully automatic and fast mesh size specification for unstructured mesh generation

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 237-248

  Deister, Frank ^a   Tremel, Udo ^a   Hassan, Oubay ^b   Weatherill, Nigel P ^b  

^a AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic; Fast; Geometry rasterisation; MPI parallel; Surface mesh generation; Unstructured

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AUTOMATIC SURFACE MESH GENERATION; FAST MESH SIZE SPECIFICATION; GEOMETRY RASTERISATION; MPI PARALLEL; SURFACE MESH GENERATION; UNSTRUCTURED MESH GENERATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 7644244954     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00366-004-0291-5     Document Type: Article

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