A Simple and Efficient Method for Modeling Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces

DOI10.1137/140972275zbMath1347.49071OpenAlexW1127394328MaRDI QIDQ2947044

Robert J. Renka

Publication date: 21 September 2015

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/385eda08d15b276afc829e41f297bfa3a7f9daf0

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfacesconstant mean curvature surfacestrust regionsurface modelingtriangle meshuniform parameterization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Newton-type methods (49M15) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) Numerical methods of relaxation type (49M20)

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Uses Software

• Surface Evolver

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