Converting an unstructured quadrilateral mesh to a standard T-spline surface

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 477-498

  Wang, Wenyan ^a   Zhang, Yongjie ^a   Scott, Michael A ^b   Hughes, Thomas J R ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Extraordinary node; Gap free T mesh; Sharp feature; Standard T spline; Unstructured quadrilateral mesh

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; GEOMETRY; TOPOLOGY;

EXTRAORDINARY NODE; QUADRILATERAL MESHES; SHARP FEATURES; T-MESHES; T-SPLINES;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 85027950335     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-011-0598-1     Document Type: Article

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