3D mesh refinement in compliance with a specified node spacing function

DOI10.1007/S004660050279MaRDI QIDQ1129567zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. H. Smith, S. H. Lo

Publication date 30 May 1999

Published in Computational Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s004660050279

zbMATH Keywords

bisection of edgesIBM Power Station 3BTsubdivision processthree-dimensional tetrahedral element mesh

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

Review text

We propose a refinement procedure for the three-dimensional tetrahedral element mesh based on successive bisection of edges. The quality of elements can be guaranteed if the subdivision is performed according to the length of the line segments to be divided. This list of ordered line segments has to be updated from time to time to take into account new line segments generated during the subdivision process. For the examples studied, the refinement rate was more than 50 000 elements per second on a IBM Power Station 3BT.

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