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Title: Automatic meshing of curved three-dimensional domains: Curving finite elements and curvature-based mesh control

Conference ·
OSTI ID:198193
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  1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (United States)

Specific issues associated with the automatic generation of finite element meshes for curved geometric domains axe considered. A review of the definition of when a triangulation is a valid mesh, a geometric triangulation, for curved geometric domains is given. Consideration is then given to the additional operations necessary to maintain the validity of a mesh when curved finite elements are employed. A procedure to control the mesh gradations based on the curvature of the geometric model faces is also given.

OSTI ID:
198193
Report Number(s):
CONF-9307220-Vol.75; TRN: 96:001696-0005
Resource Relation:
Conference: Modeling, mesh generation and adaptive numerical methods for partial differential equations program, Minneapolis, MN (United States), 6-23 Jul 1993; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Modeling, mesh generation, and adaptive numerical methods for partial differential equations; Babuska, I. [ed.] [Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Inst. for Physical Science and Technology]; Henshaw, W.D. [ed.] [Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)]; Oliger, J.E. [ed.] [Research Inst. for Advanced Computer Science, Moffet Field, CA (United States)]; Flaherty, J.E. [ed.] [Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States)]; Hopcroft, J.E. [ed.] [Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States). Coll. of Engineering]; Tezduyar, T. [ed.] [Army High Performance Computing Research Center, Minneapolis, MN (United States)]; PB: 501 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English