Voronoi Tessellations and Their Application to Climate and Global Modeling

Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering

Volumn 80, Issue , 2011, Pages 313-342

  Ju, Lili ^a   Ringler, Todd ^b   Gunzburger, Max ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MESH GENERATION;

CENTROIDAL VORONOI TESSELLATION; COMPUTATIONAL SOLUTIONS; DELAUNAY TESSELLATIONS; EUCLIDEAN SPACES; GLOBAL MODELING; MODEL EQUATIONS; VARIABLE RESOLUTION; VORONOI TESSELLATIONS;

SPHERES;

EID: 80052246365     PISSN: 14397358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11640-7_10     Document Type: Chapter

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