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IMR
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Increasing the Number and Volume of Hexahedral and Prism Elements in a Hex-Dominant Mesh by Topological Transformations
This paper describes a new method for increasing the number and the volume of hexahedral and prism elements in a hexdominant mesh by topological transformations. The method takes ...
Soji Yamakawa, Kenji Shimada
IMR
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Mesh Refinement Based on the 8-Tetrahedra Longest- Edge Partition
The 8-tetrahedra longest-edge (8T-LE) partition of any tetrahedron is defined in terms of three consecutive edge bisections, the first one performed by the longest-edge. The ass...
Angel Plaza, Maria-Cecilia Rivara
IMR
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Multiple Stationary and Moving Boundary Handling in Cartesian Grids
A Cartesian grid generation methodology is developed for unsteady control volume computational fluid dynamic (CFD) solvers. Arbitrary combinations and numbers of moving and statio...
Kerem Pekkan
IMR
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Crystalline, Red Green Strategy for Meshing Highly Deformable Objects with Tetrahedra
Motivated by Lagrangian simulation of elastic deformation, we propose a new tetrahedral mesh generation algorithm that produces both high quality elements and a mesh that is well ...
Neil Molino, Robert Bridson, Joseph Teran, Ronald ...
IMR
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation for Transient Flows Simulations
Unstructured mesh adaptation has already revealed very efficient for computing an accurate solution in a reasonnable amount of time on current PC architectures. Two features are s...
Pascal J. Frey, Frédéric Alauzet
IMR
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
When and Why Ruppert's Algorithm Works
An “adaptive” variant of Ruppert’s Algorithm for producing quality triangular planar meshes is introduced. The algorithm terminates for arbitrary Planar Straight Line Graph ...
Gary L. Miller, Steven E. Pav, Noel Walkington
IMR
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Unified Geometry Access for Analysis and Design
This paper presents a comprehensive approach for CAD based geometry handling in support of single and multidisciplinary analysis and design. Unlike previous schemes, the model pre...
Robert Haimes, Curran Crawford
IMR
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Adaptable Surface Parameterization Method
Parameterizations of triangulated surfaces are used in an increasing number of mesh processing applications for various purposes. Although demands vary, they are often required to...
Patrick Degener, Jan Meseth, Reinhard Klein
IMR
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Combined Laplacian and Optimization-based Smoothing for Quadratic Mixed Surface Meshes
Quadratic elements place stringent requirements on a surface mesh smoother. One of the biggest challenges is that a good linear element may become invalid when mid-side nodes are ...
Zhijian Chen, Joseph R. Tristano, Wa Kwok
IMR
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A New Type of Size Function Respecting Premeshed Entities
This paper describes the creation of a new type of size function – the mesh size function that honors the existing mesh on premeshed geometry entities and radiates the mesh size...
Jin Zhu