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IMR
2003
Springer
14 years 5 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
14 years 5 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
14 years 5 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
14 years 5 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
14 years 5 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
14 years 5 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
IMR
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Toward Quality Surface Meshing
This paper presents recent progress and extensions to TriQuaMesh (TQM) [1], targeted at providing good quality surface meshes: Increased robustness of the 1D mesh generator to han...
Jean Cabello
IMR
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Local Cell Quality Metric and Variational Grid Smoothing Algorithm
A local cell quality metric is introduced and used to construct a variational functional for a grid smoothing algorithm. A maximum principle is proved and the properties of the loc...
Larisa Branets, Graham F. Carey
IMR
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Compact Representations of Simplicial Meshes in Two and Three Dimensions
We describe data structures for representing simplicial meshes compactly while supporting online queries and updates efficiently. Our data structure requires about a factor of fi...
Daniel K. Blandford, Guy E. Blelloch, David E. Car...
IMR
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Multilevel Accelerated Optimization for Problems in Grid Generation
The quality of numerical simulations of processes that are modeled by partial differential equations strongly depends on the quality of the mesh that is used for their discretiza...
Markus Berndt, Mikhail J. Shashkov