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

DOI10.1007/S00466-011-0598-1zbMath1248.65024OpenAlexW2040598879MaRDI QIDQ416110

Thomas J. R. Hughes, Wenyan Wang, Michael A. Scott, Yongjie Jessica Zhang

Publication date: 9 May 2012

Published in: Computational Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-011-0598-1

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmsurface fittinggraphical examplesComputer Aided Designextraordinary nodegap-free T-meshsharp featurestandard T-splineT-spline surfaceunstructured quadrilateral mesh

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for the numerical solution of initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M50) Computer-aided design (modeling of curves and surfaces) (65D17)

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