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Title: An Angular Method with Position Control for Block Mesh Squareness Improvement

Abstract

We optimize a target function de ned by angular properties with a position control term for a basic stencil with a block-structured mesh, to improve element squareness in 2D and 3D. Comparison with the condition number method shows that besides a similar mesh quality regarding orthogonality can be achieved as the former does, the new method converges faster and provides a more uniform global mesh spacing in our numerical tests.

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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
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Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1399751
Report Number(s):
LLNL-TR-739585
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

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Yao, J., and Stillman, D. An Angular Method with Position Control for Block Mesh Squareness Improvement. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.2172/1399751.
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title = {An Angular Method with Position Control for Block Mesh Squareness Improvement},
author = {Yao, J. and Stillman, D.},
abstractNote = {We optimize a target function de ned by angular properties with a position control term for a basic stencil with a block-structured mesh, to improve element squareness in 2D and 3D. Comparison with the condition number method shows that besides a similar mesh quality regarding orthogonality can be achieved as the former does, the new method converges faster and provides a more uniform global mesh spacing in our numerical tests.},
doi = {10.2172/1399751},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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