Three-dimensional automatic local remeshing for two or more hybrid meshes

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1495-1505

  Ito, Yasushi ^a   Shih, Alan M ^a   Soni, Bharat K ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; Grid generation; Mesh generation; Regridding; Remeshing; Unstructured hybrid mesh; Viscous flow simulation

Indexed keywords

GRID GENERATION; HYBRID MESHES; LOCAL REMESHING; REGRIDDING; REMESHING; SMALL DEVICES;

FLOW SIMULATION; MESH GENERATION; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; VISCOUS FLOW;

TURNAROUND TIME;

EID: 79960588865     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2324     Document Type: Article

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