Quality improvement of non-manifold hexahedral meshes for critical feature determination of microstructure materials

Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable, IMR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 211-230

  Qian, Jin ^a   Zhang, Yongjie ^a   Wang, Wenyan ^a   Lewis, Alexis C ^b   Qidwai, M A Siddiq ^b   Geltmacher, Andrew B ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bspline curve; Geometric flow; Microstructure materials; Non manifold hexahedral mesh; Optimization; Pillowing; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

B SPLINE CURVE; GEOMETRIC FLOWS; HEXAHEDRAL MESH; PILLOWING; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; CURVE FITTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION; TITANIUM;

MATERIALS;

EID: 77952000185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04319-2_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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