Adaptive remeshing process with quadrangular finite elements (Q1803721)

The paper proposes and discusses a mesh control scheme on the base of the \(h\)-adaptation method for four-node quadrangular finite elements. The first part of the paper is devoted to the description of the author's automatic mesh generator for an arbitrary 2-dimensional domain requiring only the geometrical information on the boundary as input data. Nodes are generated from a regular grid deleting those that lie within a shrunked domain for avoiding excessively distorted elements. The mesh is then generated in essentially two stages by using sets of conditions and finally a smoothing process. In a second part the adaptive remeshing scheme is described for which the error estimate based on the interpolation theory is used, requiring the approximate calculation of higher derivatives that are obtained from higher degree shape functions. Several examples illustrate the performance of the proposed method.