Surface smoothing and quality improvement of quadrilateral/hexahedral meshes with geometric flow

DOI10.1002/cnm.1067zbMath1158.65314OpenAlexW1967672419WikidataQ37385229 ScholiaQ37385229MaRDI QIDQ3605178

Yongjie Jessica Zhang, Guo-liang Xu, Chandrajit L. Bajaj

Publication date: 20 February 2009

Published in: Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2761001

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examplesquality improvementgeometric flowsurface smoothingfeature preservationquadrilateral/hexahedral meshbiomolecular meshes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18)

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