A novel energy-based approach for merging finite elements

DOI10.1002/nme.2963zbMath1217.74139OpenAlexW2077518954MaRDI QIDQ3017981

Or Yogev, Erik K. Antonsson, A. A. Shapiro

Publication date: 20 July 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.2963

zbMATH Keywords

strain energyenergy minimizationmeshing3-Dmorphogenelement merging

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Uses Software

• H-Morph

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